Nigeria’s elite, who Chinua Achebe shunned, sing praises...

OGIDI. — Hundreds of mourners gathered yesterday in the hometown of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe for the funeral of the man regarded as the father of modern African literature and the author of the widely praised Things Fall Apart. Heavy ...

OGIDI Revered Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, author of the widely praised novel "Things Fall Apart," will be buried in his small hometown on Thursday in a ceremony expected to draw crowds of mourners. Achebe, who died in the United States in March ...

The policy of frustrating great African minds involved in Africa's noblest project of deconstructing and invalidating paraded Eurocentric notions about Africa did not end with Anta Diop and Kwame Nkrumah. In its most savage application with the ...

Ghana News plugins Nigerians who graced the funeral service of late Prof. Chinua Achebe on Thursday at St. Phillip's Anglican Church, Ogidi, Anambra state have continued to pour encomiums on the literary icon. The occasion was graced by Presidents ...

Nigerian literary icon Chinua Achebe was a highly acclaimed novelist, poet and professor and critic. Best known for his debut novel Things Fall Apart, Achebe played a pivotal and instrumental role in the development of African Literature. He died in ...

SONS and daughters of Ogidi resident in Lagos State, under the aegis of Ogidi Union of Nigeria (OUN) at the weekend organized a service of songs in honour of one of their most illustrious sons, the literary icon Prof. Chinua Achebe, who passed on ...

Chinua Achebe, the one who achieved fame n'uwanile "through solid personal achievements", is a hero to many who are perturbed by the place of the black man in the world. I am proud to be one of them. While growing up, I lived less than a kilometre ...

(NAN) The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) will to hold a commendation service for the late literary icon, Prof. Chinua Achebe on Sunday, May 19, in Abuja. The Primate of the Church, Archbishop Nicholas Okoh, told the News Agency of Nigeria ...

· In Achebe: Exit of a literary giant, Politics Share Tweet Prof. Chinua Achebe was a literary giant who used the power of erudition to project persuasive and powerful political points. Little is known today of the sharp disagreement between the ...