Achebe | Intervention

Isn’t Governor Charles Chukwuma Soludo a Performance Puzzle?

Posted By: adminon: March 22, 2026In: GovernanceTags: Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, Achebe, Agrarian transformation, Anambra State, Aper Aku, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, IMF/World Bank, Mallam Lawal Batagarawa, Peter Obi, Prof Sam Aluko, Prof Thandika MkandawireNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA This piece is about a puzzle rather than a campaign for, against or criticism of Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo who was sworn-in a week ago for his second term of four years as... Read more

ABU, Zaria Literary Philosopher, Muazu Maiwada, Speaks on State of Writing in Nigeria Today

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: Abubakar Imam, Achebe, Acholonu, Ahmadu Bello University, ANA, Chike Obi, Clark, Creative writing, Gimba, Kasimu Yero, Nelly Uchendu, Ojaide, Osundare, Poetry, Soyinka, TutuolaNo CommentsViews:

LiteratureVoice conducted this interview which Intervention finds re-publishable mainly because of one question: the state of writing in Nigeria today. Why are there no Achebes, Soyinkas, JP... Read more

The Passage of Ngugi Wa Thiongo

Posted By: adminon: May 28, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, African ontological gaze, Decoloniality, Imperialism, Mudimbe, Nobel Prize for LiteratureNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja If the Kenyan writer did not die the way he did, he wouldn’t be who he is: layers and layers of mystique. Otherwise, is it another coincidence that he set on the journey of n... Read more

Tunani Initiative Sets About Reviving the Civic Space in Nigeria Through Literature

Posted By: adminon: May 23, 2025In: Words and WorldTags: #EndSARS, Achebe, Arts, Ben Okri, Civic space, Cold War, Dele Farotimi, Judiciary, King of Boys, Literature, Military rule, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Niger military junta, Niyi Osundare, Rarara, Soyinka, Tunani Initiative, ‘Very Dark Man’No CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja What literature can do in the meaning – action nexus whenever and wherever a particular meaning of a literary text is made consensual makes a book club such as Tunani I... Read more

Ngugi wa Thiong’o Spearheads Dismantling Language Empires

Posted By: adminon: August 22, 2024In: World From AfricaTags: Achebe, Africa, African universities, Colonialists, Igbo, Irish nationalism, Joyce, Kenya, Toyin Falola, Yoruba, Zulu, ‘Nobel of the heart’No CommentsViews:

Age and nasty experiences in the recent past are not slowing down Ngugi Wa Thiongo, the Kenyan writer. He is still taking the fight to Africa’s conquerors, this time revisiting his insistenc... Read more

In Onyeka Onwenu, Nigeria, Africa and the World Lost an Artist

Posted By: adminon: August 02, 2024In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, Africa, Descartes, Fanon, Hegel, Individuality, Joyce, Marx, NIGERIA, Onyeka Onwenu, Shakespeare, The worldNo CommentsViews:

Artists and philosophers do not die. The world is still quoting Descartes, Hegel, Marx, Shakespeare, Joyce, Achebe, Fanon and so on because they have set the terms of the conversation throug... Read more

Inside Bongos Ikwue’s Musical Kingdom

Posted By: adminon: May 11, 2024In: SpectacleTags: Achebe, Amos Tutola, Collective stupidity, Derrida, Ella Agunaga, God, Governor Hyacinth Alia, Marx, Religion, Wole SoyinkaNo CommentsViews:

It is possible to have sat in conversation with Bongos Ikwue several times previously but to find him a different person in a more recent encounter. But that is not because he is slippery. I... Read more

Prof Claude Ake Street in Abuja and Its Evocation of ‘Back to the Future’

Posted By: adminon: October 10, 2023In: FlashbackTags: Achebe, Bala Usman, Decoloniality, IPPSS, Kenneth Waltz, Literature, Postcolonial theory, Richard Ashley, Stanley Hoffmann, ‘Dissident scholars’No CommentsViews:

When Intervention opened this series upon discovering that the late Bala Usman has a street named after him in Abuja, the reason given for the significance for that is that Abuja stands as a... Read more

Bringing the Mediatisation of Africa Into Raymond Dokpeshi’s Death

Posted By: adminon: July 05, 2023In: People in ActionTags: Achebe, African cosmologies, Aljazeera, Arise News, Brazil, Global citizenship, India, Mass Communications, Mazrui, Mbembe, Mudimbe, NIGERIA, Nigerianism, NUC, Popular culture, TrustNews, TVCNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja There is a point about the late Raymond Dokpeshi warranting this tribute. Otherwise, his associates and all those who interacted with him closely have said all that ought to... Read more

For the Attention of Nigerian Foreign Policy Mandarins

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2023In: BookspaceTags: Academia, Achebe, Canada, Coloniality of modernity, Intelligence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Neorealism, SADF, SIIA, Summitry, The military, The Presidency, Things Fall Apart, Traditional diplomacy, UmofiaNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja These two books have not been written for Nigerian foreign policy but it would be surprising if they do not form the training manuals for the assemblage associated with formu... Read more