The Senate of New York State, in the United States has passed a resolution paying tribute to world acclaimed author Chinua Achebe.

In the resolution, the Senate said , Professor Achebe’s global significance “lies not only in his talent and recognition as a writer, but also as a critical thinker and essayist who has written extensively on questions of the role of culture in Africa along with the social and political significance of aesthetics and analysis of the post colonial state in Africa.”

By  Kajal Bandyopadhyay Achebe, religion, renaissance and Bangladesh In 2008, the world celebrated 50 years of the publication of a modern classic, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. The English Department of Dhaka University took an initiative of celebrating the occasion through a day-long international conference. As part of the program, we were trying to […]

THE University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Literature 301 (African Fiction) Class was weeks late in starting for the 1980/81 academic year. On the fourth week, the students had gathered as usual even before it was time for the class.

The departure of High Chief Chinua Achebe (Ugo belu n’oji – The Eagle on the Iroko) is painful to many Nigerians and peoples all over the world. For the Ogidi nation, it is particularly agonizing. Our loss is immeasurable. As we weep, the cry has been: can we ever replace this man? The “Eagle on the Iroko” has fluttered its fatigued wide wings and flown away; and disappeared. The man that put Ogidi on the world map of literature and culture has joined his ancestors.

I heard the news: Okosisi Dalu. But not Achebe No! Not the Achebe we know He just cannot fall For wherever he is He stands Taller Than all Your father, our brother Chinua Achebe, the master storyteller Yesterday made his grand exit Into eternity With resounding harvests of creativity, yet He left a gaping hole […]

ONE of the most profound interventions during the controversy provoked by ethnic jingoists following the publication of Prof. Chinua Achebe’s valedictory commentary on Nigeria, There Was A Country, was made by the Governor of Lagos State, His Excellency, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN.

Professor Chinua Achebe, without any iota of dispute, one of the best and greatest minds of this century, died a few days ago. And since his death many persons have composed different kinds of eulogies in his honour. The compositions clearly are in consonance with the engagements and preoccupancies of the universal man of letters […]

Governors of the South East of Nigeria on Sunday in Enugu agreed to give the renowned author, late Prof. Chinua Achebe, a befitting burial.

Chinua Achebe was a revolutionary genius with a descriptive warrior pen. He was ebulliently meticulous; a man of great wisdom and humility, with a rancor-free personality. But his literary approach and expression spearheaded by his novel Things Fall Apart was anything but radical and
revolutionary. It was an indeed a velvet revolutionary book. With the novel Achebe lunched the restoration of the African dignity, a clarion
call for Africa to define herself, tell her story and salvage her lost dignity.

WAY back in 1979, I was privileged to get close to our idol and hero, Professor Chinua Achebe. I had just gained admission to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.