Achebe Lives As An Immortal Writer In Our Hearts And MindsTuesday, May 21, 2013 USAfrica, Houston May 21, 2013: Since 1958 -- with the novel Things Fall Apart, the great writer laid the foundation for what I call the power and permanence of Chinua Achebe. Between 1958 and 2013, amidst a body of first rate works, especially his 2012 blockbuster, personal history of Biafra: The ... |
MAY YOUR SOUL REST IN PERFECT PEACE-BEREAVED FAMILY.Sunday, May 12, 2013 The Entire family of Mr. Fuzzy Komabt ,who is the Upper East Regional Director Centre for National Culture in Bolgatanga and the Bagoeya family at Najong No1 in the Bunkpurugu/Yunyoo District has wished their Mother , Wife, Anty and Ground Mother ,Mrs. Eunice Teni Kombat who died on the 4th of May ... |
Special Tribute To The King Ga MantsÉ› Abiasuma King Tackie Tawia IIISaturday, May 04, 2013 1. KwÉ bÉ ni maÅ ni kulÉ emli bii fa babaoo lÉ ta shi ekome too KwÉÉÉ bÉ ni etsÉ tamo okulafo; lÉ maÅ ni kulÉ eje agbo yÉ majimaji ateÅ lÉ. lÉ ni kulÉ lumÉ ji lÉ yÉ maji ateÅ lÉ, ÅmÉnÉ etsÉ mÉ ni atsuÉ lÉ onia.2.... She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are ... |
Tribute To Memory Of Mr. Livingston Kofi Brightwell By NDC – VirginiaWednesday, April 24, 2013 If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord. Romans 14:8It is with a heavy heart that we the members of NDC Virginia eulogize our fallen comrade, brother and friend, Mr. Livingston Kofi Brightwell. It was with a heavy ... |
Tribute To The Late Dr Benjamin Nii Darkufio DodooMonday, April 15, 2013 1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lords hand double for all her sins.3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare y ... |
Three Lessons Achebe Taught MeWednesday, April 10, 2013 Chinua Achebe has been described as the grandfather of African fiction who lit up a path for many others. I met this extraordinary Nigerian novelist, poet, and professor when I read his debut novel, Things Fall Apart. The book was a compulsory literary text in secondary school and has been t ... |
The Task Of The Labourer Is Over: Mrs. Funmilayo OlayinkaMonday, April 08, 2013 Today I am painfully sored. As I write this with grieving heart and from a broken heart on the passage to eternity of my dear sister, deputy Governor of Ekiti State, Mrs Funmilayo Olayinka, our own elegant stallion,heroine of repute, all of these epaulets and more well earned and deserved all throug ... |
Chinua Achebe Is Dead, Long Live Chinua Achebe!!Monday, April 08, 2013 The Nobel laureate that never was and the poster face of modern African literature is no longer with us. Alas Chinua Achebe is reported to have joined the ancestors at 82 on 21st March 2013. News of his transition to the ancestral world has been received across the world with a deep sense of loss a ... |
My Initiation Into AchebeismSunday, April 07, 2013 Unlike everyone else, my initiation into the world of Prof. Chinua Achebe did not start with Things Fall Apart; neither did it start with A Man of the People, it started with reading the summary of Anthills of the Savannah. As an Art student in high school, Anthills of the Savannah was one of th ... |
B.A. Mensah: Through The Eyes Of A ChildWednesday, April 03, 2013 As a child growing up in the then serene environs of Airport Residential Area in Accra in the 70s, my group of friends often took long, aimless walks in the evenings around the neighbourhood. At the time all the streets could be identified by name and so it was through street names that I learn ... |
THE LOST TREASURES OF CHINUA ACHEBEMonday, April 01, 2013 They are the proverbs They intersperse all of Achebes works, and they are quickly forgotten, lost and neglected, by a people for whom they are meant to elicit deep thought and create a future. A future that takes into cognizance their history. Proverbs are the palm-oil with which words ar ... |
On The Passing Of Professor Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)Monday, March 25, 2013 We mourn, as our duty, the passing of our beloved Chinua; but this is certainly overtaken by the compelling celebration of an exemplary life that has positively touched every corner and every culture of this planet and all peoples of the world. Through his literary works, Achebe speaks to us convinc ... |
Chinua Achebe: My AwakeningFriday, March 22, 2013 It was the publication of There Was A Country that served as my sole premonition of the imminent death of my father Chinua Achebe. When he published it, my first reaction was oh my God That was because for years, he had only commented in snippets on the Nigeria-Biafra war. A war that we know ... |
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