Award-winning author Chinua Achebe, sometimes described as the grandfather of modern African literature, died this week at age 82. Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton in Lagos ...

Award-winning author Chimamanda Adichie will headline the inaugural edition of the 'Things Fall Apart Festival,' in honour of ...

The Achebe Colloquium on Africa, the legacy project established by the famed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, brings together an international cast of leading and emerging scholars, high-level ...

Add to that painful spectre the fact that Buhari’s cure has turned out to be worse than the disease, and it is painful that he now wants to give away hundreds of awards, often to the same lepers ...

Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka ... also dismisses calls for a posthumous Nobel Prize for Achebe. Many Nigerians believe that Soyinka, having won the award in 1986, has a whip hand to guide Achebe ...

I dare say the great African writer; Chinua Achebe ... He receives great awards and he becomes well known too. The other less known and therefore a minor book of Achebe is his poetry collection ...

The life and ideas of the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, in his own words, and in the words of those who knew, loved and were inspired by him. Show more The life and ideas of the Nigerian novelist ...

Award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, has been announced as the headliner of the 2025 Things Fall Apart Festival ...