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“It had happened on the festival day that as Obika and Ofoedu drank with the three men at the market place, one of the men had thrown a chal...

“[Okonkwo’s] fame rested on solid personal achievements. … [Okonkwo] had no patience with unsuccessful men. He had had no patience with is f...

"Okonkwo was inwardly pleased at his son's development, and he knew it was due to Ikemefuna. He wanted Nwoye to grow into a tough y...

Image credit Suad Kamardeen (By Lily Saint and Bhakti Shringarpure ) -  African literature is a country           What if you survey ...

(By Emmanuel Iduma ) – ‘Gone Like a Meteor’: Epitaph for the Lost Youth of the Biafran War In 1967, Nigeria had been an independent coun...

(By Danica Salazar ) - Release notes: Nigerian English My English-speaking is rooted in a Nigerian experience and not in a Brit...

" Nigeria: A squandering of Riches," a World About Us Documentary by Onyeka Onwenu

(By Ruth Franklin) – After Empire: Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel           In a myth told by the Igbo people of...

Chinua Achebe at his house in Enugu, Nigeria, 1959 (By  Kwame Anthony Appiah ) -  The genius of Chinua Achebe, like ...

(By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ) - I am from Abba, in Njikoka LGA. My mother is from Umunnachi in Dunukofia LGA. I grew up in Nsuk...

(By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ) - Chinua Achebe at 82: “We Remember Differently”  I have met Chinua Achebe only three times. Th...

"Onitsha is such a phenomenon. ... Onitsha is an Igbo town which claims Benin origin. If we are to believe historians, this claim is...

(By OkeyNdibe )-- Two Saturdays ago, I had the privilege of giving a keynote at an international conference organized at the Senate House...

(Chinua Achebe)—He was drawn to markets and straight roads. Not any tiny neighborhood market where a handful of garrulous women might gat...

(Pius Adesanmi)--Thank You, Millennials! Despite sorrow, despite anguish, despite depression over Kogi state, Nigeria, today, I somehow...

Source: timeslive.co.za "My father was a man of few words, and I have always regretted that I had not asked him more questions. Bu...

Source: reading.cornel.edu (Chinua Achebe)--"Soon after [an] encounter with my future father-in-law I moved to Lagos to interview f...