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,[…]
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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[…]
Editorial #12: Orality and Slices of Nigerian Literary History
One of the major points Chinua Achebe harped on at the beginning of his now famous memoir There Was A Country, common as well to most of his major literary interventions,[…]
Achebe and the Myth of Nigerian Exceptionalism
It has been only a few weeks since the prolific and renowned author, Professor Chinua Achebe’s personal account of the 1967 Nigerian Civil War, “There Was a Country” was published,[…]