[This tribute is a second revision of a piece (REFLECTIONS ON CHINUA ACHEBE) which I wrote in 2000, and revised in 2007. His passing, in the third week of March 2013, has necessitated this revision.]   Chinua Achebe was a compelling figure, straight out of a Biblical saga. He was also, rather more prosaically, a friend […]

MY first encounter with Chinua Achebe was through the sociological cum literary eyes of the immortal and seminal Things Fall Apart (TFA), first as a secondary school aficionado of the in-any-form written word.

The passing of Chinua Achebe is a great loss not only for Nigeria and Africa but also for the world at large. I send my condolences and those of my brothers and sisters in The Gambia to our brethren of the great nation of Nigeria on the occasion of the death of the doyen of African literature, the most learned Chinua Achebe, “Towering Man of Letters” as the respected New York Times would call him. The loss of an icon and a repository of knowledge saddens us.

By CID Oguagha I learnt more than a lot from Ogbuefi Ugonabo, Professor Chinua Achebe. One of what I learnt  is the Igbo proverb, idols are made to be destroyed! When I encountered this proverb in one of the interviews he granted in the 1980s, I closed the newspaper with my index finger still in-between the […]

The National Transition Committee responsible for the burial arrangement of late Professor Chinualumogu Achebe has unveiled the programme.