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The Onoge Shock

Posted By: adminon: January 16, 2026In: World From AfricaTags: ABU, African Literature, Chinua Achebe, Harvard, Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Prof Abiola Irele, Prof Omafume Onoge, Prof Victor Adetula, UI, UNIBEN, UNIFE, UNIJOS, UNILAG, UNNNo CommentsViews:
The Onoge Shock

I have heard a huge share of the stuff he was made of, including his articulation of the Aiyetoro community as a socialist entity in a thesis to Harvard University, at a time positivism was... Read more

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Foremost Literary Critic, Prof Charles Nnolim, is Dead

Posted By: adminon: July 01, 2025In: People in ActionTags: African Literature, Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Chinua Achebe, Literary criticism, Prof Claude Ake, University of PortharcourtNo CommentsViews:
Foremost Literary Critic, Prof Charles Nnolim, is Dead

Barely a month after an iroko in the African literary forest fell, a reference to Ngugi Wa Thiongo, there has been the fall of another iroko. He is Charles Nnolim, a foremost critic in Afric... Read more

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Publication Afoot in Honour of Departing UNN’s Prof. Amechi Nicholas Akwanya

Posted By: adminon: November 18, 2019In: BookspaceTags: African Literature, Okike, University of Nigeria - NsukkaNo CommentsViews:
Publication Afoot in Honour of Departing UNN’s Prof. Amechi Nicholas Akwanya

Armed with a PhD from the National University of Ireland, Professor Amaechi Nicholas Akwanya settled into the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and, over three decades, the Professor of English... Read more

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Unless We Decolonise Our Minds, Freedom is Far – Chima Anyadike, Retiring OAU, Ile-Ife Professor

Posted By: adminon: September 09, 2019In: People in ActionTags: African Literature, Biafra Airforce, CKC-Onitsha, Drum Magazine, Eton College, Exam Success Correspondence College, Government College-UmuahiaNo CommentsViews:
Unless We Decolonise Our Minds, Freedom is Far – Chima Anyadike, Retiring OAU, Ile-Ife Professor

 It is still a hanging debate. That is the question of which of Literature and Political Science has been more helpful to the African cause. In February 2018 in Abuja, Ibrahim Abdullahi, a P... Read more

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