Tag Archives: Chinua Achebe

Nigerian greats

Posted on May 23, 2008 by

Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka are great Nigerian writers. They are contemporaries whose writings have followed broadly parallel paths – initially in the footsteps of Cyprian Ekwensi & Amos Tutuola – drawing upon Igbo (Achebe) and Yoruba (Soyinka) oral traditional … Continue reading →

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African prizes

Posted on October 30, 2007 by

It would be difficult to conceive a more ludicrous idea (and luminaries such as Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan and Mary Robinson really should know better). The “self-made” cellphone billionaire Mo Ibrahim has started to hand out his eponymous self-congratulatory award … Continue reading →

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