In a couple of months, literary icon, Chinua Achebe, will release his latest book, whose title is still being kept under wraps. Oseloka Obaze writes on how the book surveys the trajectory of a noble and richly lived life, with its inevitable ups and downs, from the writer’s birth to his fame and present disability and involuntary sojourn in the United States.

The grand finale of Triple Fun Club 2011 Literary, Oratory, and Leadership Week came to a close recently at the Atlantic Hall, Hotel Presidential in River State

Last week was the 70th birthday of veteran and award-winning photographer, jazz percussionist, one-time trend-setting barber and publisher, Sunmi Smart-Cole . And as a way of celebrating that great moment that took place in Port Harcourt, Rivers State in 1941, SS Cole as he was fondly called who is of Nigerian-Sierra Leonean parentage put together a befitting birthday bash.

“We have an obligation to admire the talents in the youths and to celebrate them so as to give them a sense of belonging in the society”, were the words of the assistant parish priest of the St Denis Catholic Church Akoka, Bariga, Rev. Father Bernard during the 4th edition of the Little Miss St Denis beauty Pageant.

African music percolated with excited chatter as a crowd waited to hear Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe kick off the Department of Africana Studies 2011-12 Conversations in Africana Writing Series Monday. Achebe and other authors were featured in a panel titled “Voice and Memory in the Poetic Imagination” at the George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space, which was filled to capacity with academics, students, writers and community members.