I took the title “the swindle called independence” straight out of a 1975 article by Chinua Achebe. Arguably Africa’s finest storyteller of the modern era, Achebe knew how to tell stories and make succinct points. It is almost impossible not to agree with him. And even when you don’t, your […]
Chinua Achebe
By Dan Ugwu. Today, March 21, 2022, is the 9th death anniversary of Chinualumogu Albert Achebe, a novelist, and essayist, a man of ideas who bowed to the invitation from the Elysian Fields at 82 on March 21, 2013, in Massachusetts, USA. Achebe died with the burden of a […]
By Dan Ugwu In history, the vocation of poetry has always imposed on poets variegated and cumbersome but inalienable responsibilities. Poets are pre-eminent repositories of the individual or communal voice and (re)memory. They are also the custodians of societal fund or mores, values and cherished ideals. As such, they […]
By: Dan Ugwu March 21st, 2019 was the 6th anniversary of the death of Chinualumogu Achebe, a novelist and essayist, a man of ideas who bowed to the invitation from the Elysian Fields at 82 on March 21, 2013 at a hospital in Massachusetts, USA. Achebe died with the […]
