Chinua Achebe, Flora Nwapa and Catherine Acholonu, among others - has provided a framework for navigating both the historical and the deeply personal in my poetry. Okigbo's lyricism and spiritual ...

Nobel prize winning author Nadine Gordimer has celebrated the legacy of the late writer Chinua Achebe at the M&G Literary festival. Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib opened the M&G Literary Festival ...

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958 ... flaw—his inflexible nature and obsession with power—leads to his personal ruin and the unravelling of his community. In Nigeria, many political ...

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's powerful tale of an Igbo community fighting to retain its identity, tradition and independence in the face of colonial rule.