And it all seems to have come full circle. The town of Onitsha which was popular for market literature has caught the Nollywood bug. The most popular address on any movie jacket is 51 Iweka Road, Onitsha.
The first few pages of Peter Chika’s collection of short stories, The Condom and other Stories, are filled with ingredients...
”The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” – Gloria Steinem The Igbo/Tamil writer Akwaeke Emezi is not Ogbanje. They were...
...the arguments for or against Idris Elba or Chiwetel Ejiofor playing Okonkwo fail to take into account a key issue with the novel and the character of Okonkwo. When we meet Okonkwo, he was about 37 or 38 years and by the time he dies, might have been no more than 42. So, Elba and Ejiofor at 52 and 47 years respectively may well be too old to play Okonkwo
Idris Elba is set to star in and executive produce a TV series adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s acclaimed novel Things...
The profundity of these presumably simple words of consolation combines effectively with his wise saying about the sun to bestow the toga of an unsung philosopher on Unoka, thus setting the stage for endless dialogue on his character.
Crickets are chirpin’ the water is high There’s a soft cotton dress on the line hangin’ dry Window wide open...
The University of Oxford has sustained a fine tradition of scholarship for centuries but great things are still taking place...
(This keynote speech was delivered at the ANA OYO Reading of February 1, 2020.) Introduction Madam Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,...
Chukwuemeka Ike, Nigerian academic, administrator, monarch and prolific writer of international repute whose celebrated works influenced a generation of readers...
African poets will make a return pilgrimage to the quiet and rustic Ojoto village in Anambra State between 19th and...
Chinua Achebe lived in glory as the one-man institution who conquered the world for Mother Africa, and the great Kenyan...
