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On Morrison by Namwali Serpell

Posted By: adminon: February 19, 2026In: BookspaceTags: African elders, Camara Laye, Chinua Achebe, Toni MorrisonNo CommentsViews:
On Morrison by Namwali Serpell

The Guardian (UK) calls this “a landmark appraisal of the great novelist’s work”. That cannot be far from the truth as Toni Morrison sets the literary world on fire again. Serpel... Read more

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Biodun Jeyifo: A Personal Remembrance 

Posted By: adminon: February 17, 2026In: People in ActionTags: AFRC, BJ, Chinua Achebe, Cornel University, PKU, Prof Oyin Ogunba, Umuahia, WNBC/TV, “Ying‑yang philosophy”No CommentsViews:
Biodun Jeyifo: A Personal Remembrance 

By Prof Chima Anyadike A few hours after news broke of the death of Professor Biodun Jeyifo on the morning of 11 February 2026, a friend who is a former vice‑chancellor of Federal University... Read more

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Dr. Kole Shettima’s ‘Zanna Yuroma’ Moment and the Modernity – Tradition Cord in Africa

Posted By: adminon: January 31, 2026In: SpectacleTags: Apartheid, Asia, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Chinua Achebe, Civil society, Covering law, Derrida, Ethiopia, Haile Selassie, Jigawa State, Latin America, Mallam Aminu Kano, Positivism, Toni Morrison, ‘Boka’, ‘Juju’, ‘Zanna Yuroma’No CommentsViews:
Dr. Kole Shettima’s ‘Zanna Yuroma’ Moment and the Modernity - Tradition Cord in Africa

By Adagbo Onoja In any other clime, the induction of a leading civil society actor into traditional authority would be a high-profile event and a big media story. It is no surprise that the... Read more

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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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Critical Moments in Nigerian Power Elite’s 5-Hour, Non-Stop Tributes to Chief Audu Ogbeh

Posted By: adminon: September 23, 2025In: People in ActionTags: 'Amen', 'Cockcrow at Dawn', AOBA, Bongos Ikwue, Chinua Achebe, Dr. Paul Unongo, FCT, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, KCOBA, Mark Okoye, Nasir el-Rufai, PDP, Prof Jerry Gana, The Obasanjo-effect, Third TermNo CommentsViews:
Critical Moments in Nigerian Power Elite's 5-Hour, Non-Stop Tributes to Chief Audu Ogbeh

By Adagbo Onoja The Nigerian power elite pulled another stunning stunt Monday September 22nd,  2025 by overcoming all factional, fractional, class, ethno-religious, regional, gender, generat... 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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The Coming Confrontation With Meaning As Achebe Comes Alive Again @ UNN

Posted By: adminon: November 16, 2022In: GovernanceTags: Chinua Achebe, Optimistic Postcoloniality, Prof A. N. Akwanya, The Novell, UNNNo CommentsViews:
The Coming Confrontation With Meaning As Achebe Comes Alive Again @ UNN

Nobody can predict what would come out of this major event from the UNN. It is probably best to wait to consume it. For, each of the variables involved – Achebe, the Novel and Postcolo... Read more

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The Jega Lens on Restructuring

Posted By: adminon: January 26, 2021In: SpectacleTags: Chief Audu Ogbeh, Chinua Achebe, INEC, Peter Obi, Prof Bayonile Tolani  Ademodi, Sanusi Lamido SanusiNo CommentsViews:
The Jega Lens on Restructuring

Prof Attahiru Jega came to the conversation on restructuring at the January 22, 2021 Media Trust Dialogue clearly set on conceptualising restructuring as no more than a rigorous or far reach... Read more

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Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

Posted By: adminon: June 13, 2020In: GovernanceTags: Cardinal Anthony Okogie, Chinua Achebe, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, NLC, OBASANJO, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Professor Ango Abdullahi, Professor Charles Soludo, Professor Wole Soyinka, T. Y DanjumaNo CommentsViews:
Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God for President Buhari?

On September 3rd, 2016 when Intervention first carried this piece, (https://intervention.ng/4465/), it was responded to as disrespectful and there was a price to pay. But Intervention has ne... Read more

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Could Soyinka, Sawaba and Bala Usman Be Talking Back to Critics of Populism?

Posted By: adminon: May 04, 2020In: People in ActionTags: 'Marx and Africa Conference ', Chinua Achebe, Fascism, National Socialism, Nazism, Prof Abdulraufu MustaphaNo CommentsViews:
Could Soyinka, Sawaba and Bala Usman Be Talking Back to Critics of Populism?

Today, populism is a dirty word across the world. To pour mud on it is an ideologically chic practice. It is being implicated in rabble rousing, hysteria and what doesn’t go beyond the surfa... Read more

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