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Opinion: Balancing The Single African Story: Dr Apaak's Chapter 23 Nov 2009 06:34 GMT
... have often been overlooked or simply subsumed in the failing single story. Celebrated novelist, Chinua Achebe calls it a balance of stories. There are good stories of individuals who are ...
Meeting Africa's literary legend 20 Nov 2009 23:26 GMT
... When I first learnt that Chinua Achebe was a professor at Bard College, New York, it became my goal to look ...
Obi of Onitsha hails Achebe on Things Fall Apart 17 Nov 2009 20:56 GMT
... The Obi of Onitsha, Nnemeka Achebe, yesterday praised Chinua Achebe’s novel, Things Fall Apart, as a book which ...
Balancing The Single African Story: Dr Apaak's Chapter 21 Nov 2009 09:23 GMT
... have often been overlooked or simply subsumed in the failing single story. Celebrated novelist, Chinua Achebe calls it a balance of stories. There are good stories of individuals who are ...
Soludo will make Anambra Africa's Dubai - Anaekwe 21 Nov 2009 11:15 GMT
... Agnew, a former American Vice President, would call the nattering nabbobs of negativism. Prof Chinua Achebe has described those characters as renegades who want to turn Anambra State into a ...

Opposition Leader Responds to State of Nation Address 19 Nov 2009 10:13 GMT
... Khama's new D for Delivery, Gaborone said if it should happen as Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe wrote that a cult of mediocrity develops where favouritism based on either tribe, race ...
Imo Govt Involves Youths in Ahiajoku Lecture 19 Nov 2009 14:54 GMT
... Nnaji, commended journalists for their cooperation during the last Ahiajoku Lecture, delivered by Professor Chinua Achebe. ...
Way 2 Impolite! [column] 20 Nov 2009 11:56 GMT
... sporadically swearing, Wainaina is an unexpected character. Currently, he is the Director of the Chinua Achebe Centre for African Literature and Languages at Bard College in New York. His aim ...
Culver Club Chit-Chats 18 Nov 2009 07:53 GMT
... to wonder if it's the same Anambra we once knew -- the home of Chinua Achebe, Cyprien Ekwensi, Nwafor Orizu, Louis Mbanefo and the rest. On Igbo Diaspora, he laughed ...
Senghor and Negritude 18 Nov 2009 16:52 GMT
... warning that these should be used to “assimilate, not be assimilated.” Critics such as Chinua Achebe and Irele Abiole take a harsh stance when it comes to this artistic (and, ...

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Drumbeat for Aluko as Writers Celebrate His 50 Years of Writing 14 Nov 2009 02:51 GMT
... Bigger than Yours, for introducing the comic angle, into the Nigerian novel, which since Chinua Achebe and Cyprain Ekwensi had tended to be serious in terms of mood, tone and ...
Northern Partitioning and Political Expediency Part 3 16 Nov 2009 01:13 GMT
... be lightly glossed over. And as my old English language and literature professor, Mr. Chinua Achebe, is wont to say: �I may be famous and all the other things as ...
Northern Partitioning and Political Expediency ' Part 3 16 Nov 2009 05:30 GMT
... be lightly glossed over. And as my old English language and literature professor, Mr. Chinua Achebe, is wont to say: “I may be famous and all the other things as ...
Comment: Northern Partitioning and Political Expediency [Part 3] 16 Nov 2009 12:14 GMT
... else is. First of all, as my old English language and literature professor, Mr. Chinua Achebe, is wont to say: �I may be famous and all the other things as ...
Illustrated Things Fall Apart For Presentation 16 Nov 2009 13:32 GMT
... Olayebi of Bookcraft said: "This special publication was commissioned in honour of the great Chinua Achebe. We have also produced an XX large edition apart from the regular edition and ...