A Man of the People (1966) by Chinua Achebe Heinemann Publishers, 149pp This book is unavailable in the Penguin Modern Classics range Chinua Achebe’s 1966 novella, A Man of the People, was selected… more →
Blogging The Classicszawan wrote 5 days ago: Chinua Achebe’s classic novel, Things Fall Apart, is set in the village Umuofia in Nigeria. It is a … more →
studio360blog wrote 1 week ago: Remember Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? Kurt sat down with the up-and-coming Nigerian writer last Decembe … more →
Jennifer Cerbasi wrote 1 week ago: As the summer begins, most children are looking forward to days spent at summer camp, playing basket … more →
Mysty Vander wrote 1 month ago: and the walls are plastered with posters; Literary Gods are praised through lamenated sheets of colo … more →
verbage wrote 1 month ago: It is so strange that I always find this poem fascinating. Ripe with symbolism, it seems to speak of … more →
Tieffa Harper wrote 2 months ago: Who knows if I’ll actually have time to get to the rest of my list this summer (though I inhal … more →
pooglespeak wrote 2 months ago: You never notice you have a problem at first, do you? As good as we are at immediately being able to … more →
writergooddoer wrote 3 months ago: Mandinka People in Gambia The Epic of Sundiata is meaningless without the concepts of fate and … more →
Lola wrote 3 months ago: I posted this on my Facebook notes and a friend asked me if I had a blog, or just wrote to FB. It … more →
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 →
Mark Gisleson wrote 3 months ago: This from the WaPost, but it nicely captures the financial zeitgeist. Dionne is on target with a co … more →
Alex T. wrote 4 months ago: (from biblio.org) The back cover of my edition of Things Fall Apart explains that the novel is ofte … more →
Librarian wrote 4 months ago: Chinua Achebe Born in 1930, Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe is probably … more →
John Ryan Recabar wrote 4 months ago: We’ve been together for almost two years this March. Everything seems to be doing well, I thou … more →
Cheryl wrote 4 months ago: Excerpt from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart “We do not pray to have more money but to … more →
DP wrote 5 months ago: THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Thin … more →
vegasworldone wrote 5 months ago: On my first thought I wouldn’t of told you that 1999 was a great year for hip-hop. Now that I … more →
Sarah wrote 6 months ago: Having read the back cover, it was obvious that this was going to be a book concerned with the evils … more →
feathersproject wrote 6 months ago: Nwachukwu Egbunike Although Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 at the threshold of Nigerian in … more →