My heart sank deep inside the bottomless pit as I helplessly watched the specimen in front of me. “Haipyy Baidaay Mine Loves” was slobbered - in an ill-fitting combination of pink, green...

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My heart sank deep inside the bottomless pit as I helplessly watched the specimen in front of me. “Haipyy Baidaay Mine Loves” was slobbered - in an ill-fitting combination of pink, green...
When the buzz about Fela started making its rounds through the off broadway circuit the initial assumption that the play about the random African artist in NY would live and die off broadway, was put...
(Washington DC: Future Fiction London, 2010) Review by Chris Dunton, National University of Lesotho The opening of this debut novel gives a reliable indicator of its dominant stylistic tendency,...
'Nigeria is once again on the brink of a precipice. We have to face up to our responsibilities before it is too late'
Oct. 19 (GIN) – Zimbabwe teen and songbird Gamu Nhengu, who gave a standout performance for the British “ X Factor” reality show, is bearing up under trying times. After getting cut...
Chinua Achebe
New York — Chinua Achebe, one of the world's most influential authors, has been chosen to receive the 2010 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. With approximately $300,000 from silent film stars...
My father's generation will never relinquish their tribalism, but my generation has thankfully learned to look forward.
Between Tuesday 13th July and Monday 19th July, 2010, a period of about one week, history was recorded as twenty (20) Nigerian artistes converged on the Ilupeju Lagos recording studio of Delta State...
Color Magazine Feature-"I used to always say to my family," recounts Dr. Chidi Achebe, "why is it that when you go to clinics in the wealthy neighborhoods, like Wellesley, they have...
Dr Etok hit the headlines last month as she travelled to America to give evidence to the Los Angeles Police Department over the investigation into Michael Jackson’s death based on what she had...
I recently had an urgent message for my father who passed away on June 21, 2009. While transmuting with a parapsychologist who was trying to help me contact him by telepathy, I came in contact with...
Wole Soyinka
Background: The Early Years Professor Soyinka, welcome to Berkeley. Thank you very much. Looking back on the life of little Wole in your masterpiece, Ake: the Years of Childhood, what values did he...