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Edmond Onuzuruike is a committed member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). Author of many books, he is also a novelist and biographer. Apart from being a storyteller, he writes political ...

The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe -- Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor -- Eternal sacred order versus ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Chinua Achebe is a Professor for Languages and Literature in the Bard College with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Speech. The year ...

The apex Igbo sociopolitical group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, hailed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for naming road in Abuja after late Prof. Chinua Achebe. INFORMATION NIGERIA reports that the group’s ...

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, the author of the landmark novel Things Fall Apart, has died at the age of 82. The Associated Press reports that he had a brief illness. It’s a staple of American ...

Things Fall Apart (1958) has been called “the finest novel written about life in Nigeria at the end of the 19th century” and ...

Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the exquisite bedlam of Lagos, a megacity of extremes. Here, he defines the books that make sense of the chaos. By Stephen ...

Try this short quiz on Africa’s vibrant literary scene and its globally popular authors. By J. D. Biersdorfer Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the ...

Things Fall Apart, A story about the incursion of Western missionaries into an Igbo community in 19th century Nigeria, has long gripped readers across the world. It’s not an obvious subject to arouse ...