In this short conversation, Artistic Director of the National Troupe of Nigeria, Martin Adaji takes a look at the dramatic and theatrical potentials of Achebe’s works and concludes that the master story teller’s deft and creative use of language accounts for the successful adaptations of his two of seminal works: Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God. He spoke to McPhilips Nwachukwu.

When the Babanginda administration appointed Dr Walter Ofonagoro the Director General of Nigerian Television Authourity NTA, little was it known that, that simple policy decision by the new helmsman was going to inaugurate a revolutionary trend both on stage, movie and in the entire literary appreciation of one the greatest prose narratives of the last century, Things Fall Apart.

The memories and life of late Afrobeat music leg end Fela Anikulapo Kuti came alive last week when friends , family members and followers of the revolutionary social crusader gathered at Nigeria Institute of International Affairs, Victoria Island for the public presentation of a new book about him entitled Kalakuta Diaries written by a friend and former personal aid to Fela, Uwa Erhabor.

THE novel Isabella Testimony By Esther Adekoya begins on an interesting note, in a hospital ward with the scene of a woman in pains, and about to give birth. We are let into the back and forth of conversation between the attending nurse and Isabella’s husband, Michael. The conversation is written in an easy prose which makes it quite believable.

IT is said that “if you don’t want to be forgotten as soon as you die, you either write something worth reading or do something worth writhing about.” That is the number one law of immortality.