Like a Tide
“It is not a replacement. It is a rebirth” By Jumoke Verissimo There’s a proverb among the Yoruba which says: bi ogede ba ku, yi o fi omo re ropo (Translation: When[…]
The Writer That I Am
“I am able to be the kind of writer that I am” by Chika Unigwe The day before Achebe died, I had dinner with amongst others, the writer Caryl Phillips,[…]
Who Will Tell Our Story?
“We need an uprising of writers against this status quo” by Dami Ajayi Achebe’s death closely followed that of Apostle Obadare, the blind doyen of Koseunti, a fiery prophet like Achebe,[…]
Art Could Have a Political Opinion
“This is what I will always try to do in my stories.” by Eghosa Imasuen The first Achebe book I read was Chike and the River. I remembered the way[…]
The president and the morgue attendant – Salisu Suleiman
There is a joke about a morgue attendant who had gotten so used to seeing dead bodies that one day, he came to work to find a supposedly dead body[…]
Of Governments And The People
What is the purpose of government? Given the intensity of the arguments on all sides of this question, I suppose that discussion around it has been with us for as[…]
Culture and Society · Literature
Farafina Announces Chimamanda’s “Americanah”
Farafina is proud to announce the Nigerian edition of AMERICANAH, the highly anticipated novel by award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Release date is April 21, 2013 in Lagos. In the[…]
De-legitimising Deregulation
The judgment, last week, of a federal high court, in which it found (amongst others) government’s deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry “unlawful, illegal, null,[…]
APC: The Game Changer?
“This is a new dawn for our generation. This is unusual. It is gratifying that they are here to see and share with us,” the middle aged man remarked with[…]
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
If what has been reported in various places online, and comments from close family members and colleagues are anything to go by, Africa’s foremost novelist and author of the famous Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, has passed[…]