AS Nigeria hopes to revive the economy through the non-oil sector, especially through Information and Communications Technology (ICT), students and youth have been challenged to take up skills in technology.

AS the literary world deliberately giving a nod to mourn one of its rare, female gems, Buchi Emecheta, WO examines contemporary Nigerian literature by women writers; and how well their themes align with the feminist tradition.

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo is a lecturer, writer, novelist, critic, essayist, journalist administrator and professor of English currently teaching at the University of Lagos. One the closest associates of the late Buchi Emecheta, she, in this interview with Woman’s Own, recounts her experience with the late novelist.

FEMINISM’, ‘Womanism’ and ‘Humanism’ are all terms which have been bandied recently in academic and literary circles, with a view to redefining- and perhaps renegotiating- gender power dynamics in the respective fields.

EMECHETA was born on July 21, 1944, in Lagos, Nigeria, to Alice (Okwuekwuhe) Emecheta and Jeremy Nwabudinke. Her father was a railway worker and molder.