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Dr Akil Khalfani, Pan African Diaspora Ambassador to the Ooni of Ife, says the Nigerian novel, Things Fall Apart, is still valued after 65 years because it tells the story of African history, culture ...
Chinua Achebe famously proclaimed in his brilliant interview with Jerome Brooks few years before his death. Published 1994 in "The Paris Review' here are excerpts of the interview. He begins with an ...
Introduction / Emenyonu -- Chinua Achebe: The Passing of a Comet / Emenyonu -- Chinua Achebe: A re-assessment / Nnolim -- Achebe's Things Fall Apart: An Igbo National Epic / Nnolim -- Things Fall ...
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 ...