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Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe2 comments

zawan wrote 5 days ago: Chinua Achebe’s classic novel, Things Fall Apart, is set in the village Umuofia in Nigeria. It is a … more →

Tags: Book Review, Books, Literature, Classics, things fall apart, Africa, Nigeria, African literature

The Liberian Literary Tradition

egbailey wrote 1 week ago: “Hi E.G. I was doing a Google search of Liberian comedians and stumbled across your your name … more →

Tags: News, Writings, Bai T. Moore, bessie head, Cesaire, Edwin Barclay, Guanya Pau, Helene Cooper, Jomo Kenyatta

Flowers of Violence: Review of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Thing Around Your Neck1 comment

Meena Kandasamy wrote 1 week ago: With her latest book The Thing Around Your Neck, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who won the Orange Prize … more →

Tags: book, Culture, Violence, Women, writing, Africa, African fiction, Alienation, america

Chimamanda!1 comment

studio360blog wrote 1 week ago: Remember Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? Kurt sat down with the up-and-coming Nigerian writer last Decembe … more →

Tags: Books, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, shivering, the thing around your neck, things fall apart

Chinua Achebe: On Criticism

boima wrote 1 month ago: Currently, I’m reading a series of lectures by Chinua Achebe called Home and Exile.  The firs … more →

Tags: Thought, Colonialism, Literature, Nigeria, criticism

Gods and Soldiers: A Review by Samantha Fingerhut

nostrandpark wrote 2 months ago: Gods and Soldiers By Samantha Fingerhut A map of Africa will show that, as of 2009, there are 54 dif … more →

Tags: Books/Literature, rob spillman, Penguin Press, samantha fingerhut, Patrice Nganang, senghor complex, JM Coetzee

Who's That Legend! 3 comments

Om wrote 2 months ago: With the bloody warfare happening in Muqdisho and global economic collapse, lately I find myself fas … more →

Tags: Africa Related, Funny/Odd, Nigeria, wole soyinka, kanu, pastor adeboye, nigeria's living legends

Nigeria and its Mindset, Just 1 more point, JSD Poll, Don’t blame the President, plus a changed Mindset....10 comments

babajidesalu wrote 2 months ago: Can I say a big thank you to the 33 of you so far who have visited my poll (please see top right col … more →

Tags: personal thoughts, Africa, Claude M. Bristol, David Beckham, giorgio armani, Manchester United, Mindset, muhammed ali, Nelson Mandela

Palm Oil, Chicken In2 comments

Cynthia Bertelsen wrote 2 months ago: Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe once wrote that proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten … more →

Tags: Africa, Recipes, Chicken, oil palm, African Cooking, Palm Oil

The Story Is Chief Among His Fellows

karlo mikhail wrote 2 months ago: “The sounding of the battle-drum is important; the fierce waging of the war itself is importan … more →

Tags: escritura, African literature, Anthills of the Savannah, Books, Literature, Nigerian literature, Post-Colonial, Post Colonial Literature, Quotes

From Russia But Fits Like a Glove

Anne Manyara wrote 2 months ago: Benjamin Kamicha as Ivan Banda (A version of this review appeared in the Sunday Nation on 26th April … more →

Tags: Drama, Shakespeare, Evans Nanyama, French Cultural Centre, The Government Inspector, Longi Ouma, Nikolai Gogol, Oyunga Pala, pushkin

Achebe to set help set record straight on Africa2 comments

BDCB wrote 2 months ago: Nigerian born Chinua Achebe, author of the worldwide best-selling book Things Fall Apart, has parte … more →

Tags: Writing News, Awesome Writers, Books, Politics, Africa

Review: Waiting for an Angel, Helon Habila

richardkunzmann wrote 3 months ago: Love Poems, the first part of this book, won Habila the Caine Prize for African fiction. It is inde … more →

Tags: African fiction, Review, book, Helon Habila, Nigerian authors, wole soyinka, ben okri, Cain Prize, Books

Chinua Achebe's Notre Dame Lectures Focus on Igbos' Perception of God, Man, Creation

theafricannovel wrote 3 months ago: Chidi Achebe doesn’t officially wear the label of “publicist” for his world-renown … more →

Tags: African literature, Theology, Lecture, Notre Dame, Igbo, Culture

Press Release:

theafricannovel wrote 3 months ago: Chinua Achebe’s Three Lectures at University of Notre Dame by Chinua Achebe Foundation Achebe … more →

Tags: African literature, Notre Dame, Lectures

A Blank Page for African Theatre2 comments

Anne Manyara wrote 3 months ago: (This article appeared in the Sunday Nation on 21st March 2009) We would all like to see true Africa … more →

Tags: Reflections, African theatre, Aristotle, Bharata Muni, Bunraku Theatre, egwugwu, ekwefi, Natya Shastra, Okonkwo

Konner Steuer: Story Log: Dead Man's Path

ellyenglish wrote 3 months ago: Author: Chinua Achebe Title: Dead Man’s Path Date of publication: 1953 Setting: Nigeria, scho … more →

Tags: konner-steuer, dead-mans-path

Man Booker Shortlist

Randy Souther wrote 4 months ago: Joyce Carol Oates is among the contenders this year for the biennial Man Booker International Prize, … more →

Tags: Awards, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Antonio Tabucchi, Arnošt Lustig, Dubravka Ugresic, E.L. Doctorow, Evan S. Connell, Ismail Kadare

Some Epochal Echoes2 comments

zunguzungu wrote 4 months ago: This isn’t a post about the The Wire. But everything is connected, albeit via subterranean cha … more →

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