Like many African adaptations that have either suffered subpar execution or dim character interpretation, many have feared that the iconic Things Fall Apart, written by the adept and father of modern African literature, the late Prof. Chinua Achebe, is on the path to mediocrity. It was earlier reported that Idris Elba is set to portray…

As my family and two other families sat in the living room of my Lagos residence during our weekly movie night watching Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” many years ago, the thought about writing this article

Most of us agree with Chinua Achebe, Africa’s late literary colossus, that Nigeria’s chief post Independence headache has been the challenge of leadership. He said in his 1983 book, The Trouble with Nigeria: “The trouble with Nigeria

Something pleasurably and perplexingly perplexing visited us recently all the way from Anambra State. Perhaps I should re-phrase the opening sentence. October 1st mood of pleasure was pleasurably released in Anambra State when Governor Chukwuma Soludo, a solid Professor of Economics, cast a keen enchantment over Anambrarians of impeccable bookmen-and-women by naming an international airport…

The story is there, has always been there, that the Tiv people of central Nigeria give out their wives to guests to sleep with as part of their hospitality. It is part of the custom of the people, it is said.

The Vice President of Ohaneze Ndigbo Worldwide, Chief Damian Okeke-Ogene, has eulogised Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra, for renaming the Anambra International Cargo and Passenger Airport, Umueri, after the late literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe.

Nigeria is fiction. The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new shelf in the library: the shelf containing fictional works. The latter-day patriots of Nigeria can cry all they want against me, but in this instance I only choose to stand solidly ...