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3 days to burial: Achebe’s family accuses his wife, children of “selling” his corpse to government [DETAILS]

by Hauwa Gambo It's not the kind of news you want to hear about a man whose global exploits as a Nigerian are matched only perhaps by music legend, Fela…

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If you say GEJ has no original thinking, where is your own? – and more, in today’s news roundup with Cheta Nwanze

by Cheta Nwanze While simultaneously failing to give us an alternative solution to the #BokoHaram menace, Uncle Lai said that the Prez's decision lacked "original thinking". Late Prof. Achebe was…

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Opinion: We need to stop the jack-of-all-trades mentality in Nigerian music & movies

by Segun Adekoye I know you are coming to read this article probably out of vex. In your mind, you bellow “I know i’m jack of all trades but how…

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You have to see this! Linda Ikeji is all kinds of HOT in Mania’s first-ever twin cover (LOOK)

by Hauwa Gambo As she would say on her blog, "Linda, is that you?!" There are no words for how totally, exceedingly, abundantly H to the O to the T…

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Opinion: Chinua Achebe’s ‘Ikemefuna’ and the destiny of the Nigerian youth

by Collins Uma ‘’When a man says yes his chi says yes also’’. I am sitting in my friend’s house at Ogidi, Anambra state and I am looking around wondering how this…

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Debo Adejugbe: There will be a country – Achebe’s last prophecy (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Corruption is now a staple in our homes. Tribalism -acknowledged or not- is now a seam in our national fabric. I finally read Chinua Achebe’s “There Was…

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Chinua Achebe’s burial to hold May 23

by Rachel Ogbu Iconic novelist, Chinua Achebe will buried May 23 On Sunday, the Chairman of the South-East Governors Forum and Anambra State Governor Peter Obi made the announcement after…

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Opinion: Don’t be deceived – Chimamanda Adichie is no Achebe

by Okezie J.S. Nwoka The Alili is a centipede; a centipede has one hundred legs. That is what it claims. The claim won the acceptance of nearly every animal in…

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Tribute: My Initiation into Achebeism

by Samuel O. Adeyemi Unlike everyone else, my initiation into the world of Prof. Chinua Achebe did not start with Things Fall Apart; neither did it start with A Man of the…

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Tony Afejuku: Questions I wanted to ask Chinua Achebe

by Prof Tony Afejuku How did he take the pathetic death of Ken Saro-Wiwa? Why did he not, as our leading writer in the United States, lead an international…

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Tribute: Achebe – The African writer whose pen had a conscience

by Dolapo Aina “Writers don’t give prescriptions; they give headaches”-Anthills of the Savannah- Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) “The moving finger writes, and having written moves on; nor all thy piety and wit…

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When I met Achebe, things fell apart – A tribute by James Hagerty

by James Hagerty Mr. Achebe did not share my enthusiasm. He informed me that he was too busy to grant me more than five minutes of his time. Because I…

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Debo Adejugbe: Social media votes and the pitfalls of ignorance (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Personally, I would have loved if "Social Media Votes" translated to actual votes... Sadly, it doesn't! It means that all our hue and cry will amount to…

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Dele Momodu: Ave unbreakable, Cum salutant

by Dele Momodu Uncle Wole was a friend of young people whose growth he nurtured. He never discriminated on account of age, gender, religion or social status. He was as…

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Opinion: Chinua Achebe, the ventriloquial Iroko

by Robert Obioha One lasting impression I have gathered after years of reading practically most of Chinua Achebe’s literary works and essays is that Africa’s most imagistic and flowery author…

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The Achebe I knew for 42 years – Prof. Nwala

•What he told me about There Was a Country To some people, Prof. Chinua Achebe wasn’t just the Things Fall Apart personality read in the text or announced in the media…

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Chris Abani: Chinua Achebe – My complicated literary father

by Chris Abani As a writer I have fought with Achebe. Railed against the anthropological bent of some of his work. Struggled with his complicated positioning of gender. Chaffed against…

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Victor Ehikhamenor writes in the New York Times: Achebe had no country to return to alive

by Victor Ehikhamenor He was a gentle needle that sewed tattered clothes, a minuscule scorpion's tail that packed venom. He answered every question with the precision of a sniper. He was…

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Laz Ude Eze: Lessons from Professor Chinua Achebe

By Laz Ude Eze After reading about the history of his early years noting that he wrote his most popular book Things Fall Apart while in his late 20s, I…

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Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent: I am glad Achebe gave us Chimamanda

by Nwilo Bura-Bari Vincent Achebe played a vital role in placing Nigerian literature in the limelight. He gave attention to African writings. He founded the Association of Nigerian Authors. He…

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Ife Adebayo: PDP and the cankerworm called corruption (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo Professor Achebe’s rejection of the recent national honour by the PDP led government of President Goodluck Jonathan is a testament to the fact that he died without…

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Tribute: Farewell Achebe – You were a writer of polished prose, a true gem

by Bayo Oluwasanmi Achebe’s position on those great varieties of problems he wrote about was far reaching and breath taking. Few modern writers dared be as candid in the expression of…

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What a way to go! The last gift Achebe gave us (#NewLeadership Series with Chude Jideonwo)

by Chude Jideonwo The more I think of him, the more I imagine a man who would never raise his voice (a weakness of mine as evidenced by the exclamations…

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Greatness squared: Chinua Achebe with Nelson Mandela in Cape town in 2002 (SNAPSHOT)

by Rachel Ogbu "There was a writer named Chinua Achebe [11/1930 - 03/2013] in whose company the prison walls fell." - Nelson Mandela Mandela had also said that Achebe was…

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Elnathan John: Mass distraction

by Elnathan John It would be unfair to taint the image of a global literary hero with petty talk of a country that does not have in any of its…

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Tribute: Chinua Achebe – Anunuebe that dwarfs the Iroko

by Okey Ikechukwu The Iroko is really not the ultimate. This tree is a physically manifest great tree, unlike another ‘tree’ that is actually not a tree; in the way…

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Ijeoma Nwogwugwu: As sale of power assets enters home stretch

by Ijeoma Nwogwugwu It is not just bidders that are losing sleep over where to raise funds for the distribution and generations companies. Even sensible Nigerian banks, which have become…

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“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own” – The New York Times reviews Achebe’s life

by Dwight Garner “If you don’t like someone’s story,” Chinua Achebe told The Paris Review in 1994, “write your own.” In his first novel and masterpiece, “Things Fall Apart” (1958),…

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Simon Kolawole: There was a legendary Iroko

by Simon Kolawole In his civil war memoir, There Was a Country, which turned out to be his last work, he maintained his age-old assertion that the rest of Nigeria…

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Achebe must be buried at home – Anambra gov’t

by Rachel Ogbu The Anambra State government is pushing for the late novelist, Chinua Achebe to be buried in his home town. Although the family has not announced their burial…

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