An academic has reportedly recovered rare historical sources from the school the late literary icon, Chinua Achebe attended in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. Terri Ochiagha, a teaching fellow in the History of Modern Africa at King’s College, London, made the recovery. According to Ochiagha, she saved a valuable amount of material while researching for…

In discussing the issues of women in relation to various factors, what comes to mind is the term “feminism”. And feminism is the belief...

The year 2018 marks the Diamond anniversary of the publication of the 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The story’s main preoccupation concerns pre- and post-colonial life in late 19th century Nigeria.

Ikeogu Oke is not new to Nigeria’s literati. Africa’s foremost novelist, Chinua Achebe, whom he had a personal relationship with, once described him as “a very fine poet.” Farther afield, the Nobel laureate, Nadine Gordimer, wrote concerning him, “[There is] no end to the wide illumination in the protean gifts of this man.” At age…

If speech patterns could help in identifying cultural identities, one could easily say that Trump is more African American than Obama.

On Tuesday 17 2017, the Lekki traffic was monstrous as at 7am and the only option was a bike for a visa interview for 8:30 am. As a frequent traveller to East Africa (which has a visa on arrival policy in most nations in that region).....

Wikidepia's description of a literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers’ festival, comes handy in delineating the place of a gathering for conversation...

London is loaded deep into the Nigerian subconscious, and its vast array of symbolisms occupies a large expanse in the sub-consciousness of the giant West African country.

On what would have been his 87th birthday, late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has been honoured with a Google doodle. Doodles are changes made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists. Considered as one of the greatest African writers of his generation, Achebe's best-known novel…

Dr. Idiat Adebule has expressed optimism that literary giants in the class of Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka and world-renowned Chinua Achebe would emerge from pupils in the state. 

Herein lies the power of the Achebe short story. Being short, it goes straight to the heart of the matter, a moment of revelation or some intrinsically tense moment or situation with a view to highlighting a human predicament.

Though, the concept of children’s literature continues to be popular, the quality of some of the literary works has begun to raise concern among critics and scholars.