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Nigeria: Chinua Achebe's New Book Sparks Controversy

The renowned writer has published a controversial memoir on the Biafran war, entitled There Was a Country.

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Professor Chinua Achebe.

  • Nigeria:   Achebe Stirs Controversy

    Vanguard, 5 October 2012

    Literary giant Chinua Achebe's depiction of Chief Obafemi Awolowo as a man driven by an overriding ambition for power at the expense of Ibos was Friday described as nonsensical and… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Awolowo to Achebe - We Are Disappointed

    Vanguard, 7 October 2012

    The storm generated by renown novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, over his claim that war-time Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, and the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo formulated the… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Achebe Bags Two Awards

    Vanguard, 3 July 2012

    Nwando Achebe Ogundimu, historian and daughter of Prof. Chinua Achebe, has won the Barbara "Penny" Kanner Prize and the Gita Chaudhuri Prize of the Western Association of Women… Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Books by Achebe, Soyinka Make 100 Greatest Non-Fiction

    Vanguard, 17 June 2011

    Two of Nigeria's most prominent writers, Prof. Chinua Achebe and Prof. Wole Soyinka, have made the Guardian of London's list of the 100 greatest non-fiction writers. Read more »

  • Nigeria:   Chinua Achebe's Latest Book Out Soon

    Independent (Lagos), 28 May 2011

    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… Read more »

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