Thomas Hardy once wrote that “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.” So, what losses have shaped you? What grief has remade you? What painful moments still throb beneath the surface, waiting to be named? The Lagos Review invites you to write them – boldly, honestly, unflinchingly, powerfully.
Tag: Things Fall Apart
Grief and loss are as universal as life and death. They are footnotes punctuating our moments of joy and happiness and love.
From Antigone to Things Fall Apart, from Beloved to An Equal Music, some of the world’s most searing stories have been written from nibs dipped in the ink of loss and grief.
And now, it’s your turn.
Thomas Hardy once wrote that “Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
The memoir progressively comes off as an album of eclectic cuts. If “Signs of Our Redemption” burns bright as the bold anthem chronicling the #EndSARS saga, “Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina” is the wistful paean for diminished talents and dreams (“Nigeria happens to the best of us…”), while “And Always Remember Them” stands out as a poetic and elegiac tribute to the fiery season of 2020 (“It is the forgotten who are truly dead” p. 192). David’s use of “We remember them” as a refrain in that chapter creates a hypnotic, incantatory rhythm that sustains emotional accumulation.
The African Studies Association (ASA) has announced the establishment of the ASA Christie and Chinua…
Two years after novelist, playwright, film director and “fabu master”, Biyi Bandele passed, his family…
A landmark event such as this global TV adaptation of Things Fall Apart definitely commands consummate critical attention, with some critics arguing in a nativist manner that a native Igbo actor ought to play the role of Okonkwo! Well, William Shakespeare’s plays are acted all over the world by actors from every part of the universe.
…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 Things Fall Apart has been recognised as one of the 50 Most Influential…
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.
Princeton University’s Africa World Initiative and Programme in African Studies are organising a two-day event…
In the beginning, Ajoke suddenly wakes up and thoughts of an impending journey to a…