The Kenyan writer challenged Western influence on African culture and history, highlighting heritage and resilience
The acclaimed multimedia artist Nakhane continues to explore the themes that have made them a rare talent across many creative fields
Thomas Mofolo’s 1907 ‘masterpiece’ novel offers the reader a journey of body and soul
A review and a re-view of Nigerian Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary novel written in 1958
In his lifetime, Lewis Nkosi arguably saw little effort in terms of intense engagement with his controversial critical inputs. In a review of a new anthology, Unathi Slasha tries to correct that
The soft-spoken scholar had a towering impact on scholarship, artistic work, teaching practice and activism
For as long as there has been an independent Nigeria, its government has been killing its people.
Few black thinkers and creatives in the United States seem able to grapple with the implications of their Americocentrism in relation to Africa
The past explains the present but not the future because ‘that tiny chaos’ makes the future opaque
The classic novel by Chinua Achebe, and how it came to be, are legendary African tales
Africans can become citizens by acting democratically and claiming their identity
The country’s Constitution is the gold standard of democracy but it is not impervious to corruption
‘In black communities, you don’t only look after your family. From the money you get, you need to pay a monthly allowance for extended family’
The novelist’s writings have provided fertile ground for the festival speakers to raise contemporary issues.
Nobel-winning author Nadine Gordimer has paid tribute to Chinua Achebe, the eminent writer who passed away in March.
Nobel prize winning author Nadine Gordimer has celebrated the legacy of the late writer Chinua Achebe at the M&G Literary festival.
Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib opened the M&G Literary Festival, which pays tribute to Chinua Achebe, with thoughts on SA’s "suspended revolution".
The fourth M&G Literary Festival will take place at Jo’burg’s Market Theatre from August 30 to September 1.
The memorial for Chinua Achebe is expected to draw thousands as mourners prepare to pay their respects to "the father of modern African literature".
The ‘father’ of African literature set the template for the darker peoples of the world to tell their own stories, writes Percy Zvomuya.
Novelist Chinua Achebe’s writing has traced the dehumanising effects of the western cultural arrogance still at work today in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Chinua Achebe, who has died aged 82, was Africa’s best-known novelist and the founding father of African fiction.
Acclaimed novelist from Nigeria, Chinua Achebe, has passed away in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 82.
Chinua Achebe breaks his silence on the conflict that shattered his homeland, writes Noo Saro-Wiwa.
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<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> delves into proverbs and finds the chauvinistic, the obscene and the dirty.
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/ 5 February 2010
Percy Zvomuya celebrates a trove of new essays by the master of the middle way, Chinua Achebe
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/ 12 November 2008
<i>Wisdom</i>, by award-winning photographer Andrew Zuckerman, records the faces, ideas and ideals of 50 global icons over the age of 65.
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Poverty and political instability on the African continent have resulted in a limited culture of reading in most African countries.
Percy Zvomuya looks at <i>Africa Writes Back</i> by British publisher James Currey.
Okey Ndibe describes how two grand old men of modern African literature saved his career — and his Christmas.