Tag: There was a Country

Chinua Achebe In 2023, a better country must emerge from the ashes of the failed ones. That new country should ...

“Why are Igbo governors unable to work and/or plan together?” The trouble with Chinua Achebe’s memoir is the style in ...

 “Indiscipline pervades our life so completely that one may be justified in calling it the condition par excellence of contemporary ...

I grew up under my grandfather's ancient pear tree in the Nigerian village of Uwessan. The tree's roots were massive ...

Unknown to him that Prof Chinua Achebe was on hospital bed and was making his way out of this difficult ...

The family of foremost literary icon, Chinua Achebe, said their late patriarch died peacefully following a brief illness. A statement ...

Brown University, where foremost novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, worked until his death last night, says it would organize a memorial ...

Continued from last week… One key fact Chinua Achebe ignored completely in his book was the injustice that triggered the ...

“And I have wondered if it ever occurred to Chief Babatope that he also, by implication, answered his interviewer’s question ...

Muhammad Jameel Yushau brings a fresh perspective to the debate over Prof Chinua Achebe's new book, "There Was a Country" ...

Muhammad Jameel Yushau offers a fresh perspective on Chinua Achebe's new controversial book, There Was a Country Professor Chinua Achebe ...

The Igbo Youth Movement (IYM) in Enugu on Sunday conferred an award titled "The Great Igbo Icon" on Prof. Chinua ...

When Plato, one of the primary sources of human thought was delineating roles in his hypothetical Republic, he set the ...

In this piece, Chimamanda Adichie extols Chinua Achebe at 82 I have met Chinua Achebe only three times. The first, ...

''Igbo domination of Nigeria is only a matter of time''- Charles Onyeama, a prominent igbo lawyer and member of the ...

In the first part of this essay, I examined how what I called monologue has become a powerful weapon and ...

I grew up taking for granted the veracity of the account of what has been described as the most heinous ...

Mr. Ojukwu’s Biafra, more concerned with winning the war, refused to accept the conditions spelt out by the Nigerian government ...

I haven’t read Chinua Achebe’s “There Was A Country”. You see I’m so old now the only way I keep ...

Foremost novelist, Chinua Achebe, has laid the blame for the deep-seated disunity confronting Nigeria on the doorsteps of Northern and ...

I am sad and distressed that a literary giant and an elder statesman such as Professor Chinua Achebe should be ...

Veteran journalist and media consultant, Olu Akerele, has described Prof Chinua Achebe's book on the Nigerian civil war as ill-timed and ...

A massive row has erupted between the Igbo and Yoruba ethnic groups in Nigeria over foremost writer, Chinua Achebe’s portrayal ...

I am a historian and I have always believed that if we want to talk history we must be dispassionate, objective and ...