As TFA @ 50 kicks off in Lagos…Panelists ask: Why
has Achebe not won Nobel Prize?
By Johnson Ndukwe
Sunday, April 27, 2008

It is a festival in seven cities: The Nigerian section of the world wide celebrations marking 50 years of the classic - Things Fall Apart - written by Chinua Achebe. | Read Story

• Achebe laments: We’ve lost our Africanism
• Applause for Burma Boy
• Book review: Back from America with Wisdom of the Serpent
• Bayo Lamikanra: Philandering don married to Pharmacy & Literature
• THE OTHER IN AFRICAN LITERATURE: Ali Mazrui vs
• A new lease of life for Nigerian writers
• THE OTHER IN AFRICAN LITERATURE:
• Enigma Theatre as tool for political revolution
• A writer’s appraisal of Nigerian politics
• Caustic poetic commentaries
• Old brigade!
• Another milestone by Akachi Ezeigbo
• Book review: Political upheavals
• Day Yenagoa celebrated Bayelsa’s queen of letters
• Book review: Saving the environment
• My war with JP Clark
• Book review: A stool in crisis
• ACHEBE COLLOQUIUM: Excitement as ANA Exco visits Nsukka
• A literature student in Malaysia asked me....
• Book review: Beyond the screen
• Why I set up Hausa prize for literature
• The Moon Also Sets: a male economist as a feminist
• Book review: Futility of War
• 50 years after Things Fall Apart: ANA celebrates Achebe
• Book review: The grandeur of bardic celebration
• I want to rub shoulders with the best male poets
• Day Gov Babangida hosted writers in Minna
• Of Writers, Scholars and Debates
• An evening with Hon. Jerry Agada, Minister of State for Education
• BOOK NEWS: Accolades trail Ukah’s When the Wind Blows
• Book review: Conmen and their gullible mugus
• Wole Soyinka’s name-sake confesses: I feel shy whenever
• Thrills as Imo commissioner hosts end-of-ye ar reading
• Love Must Not Be Forgotten: A Love Like a Woman’s and
• After wedding, ANA official Adaobi is about to explode
• The knight of mystery stories
• Realism, fantasy and the novel form
• A maiden to the rescue
• Lunatics have misled our literary scholars–Ossie Enekwe
• Realism, fantasy and the novel form
• Gift and fun galore at Lantern Books’ Christmas bash
• ANA calls for entries for Achebe Colloquium, ANA REVIEW
• Nigerian writers abroad are cowards
• Book review:Water palaver
• ANA fetes teenage award winner, Towunmi
• It’s incorrect to say contemporary Nigerian literature is based abroad
• CYPRIAN EKWENSI:The Writer, the Man and his Era
• What hope for indigenous African literatures?
• Day CBAAC celebrated African culture in Benin Republic
• Helon Habila unites Nigerian writers
• Revisiting Biafra
• How lucrative is it to be a writer in Nigeria?
• The drummer stops drumming
• Igonowari: the Nigerian writer who took London by storm
• Immortalize Ekwensi now’
• CYPRIAN EKWENS! His writings, public life & legacy
• ..Literary community mourns
• 2007 ANA Convention: Tales from the heartland
• Day Supreme Court Judges dropped wigs for pen
• A pastoral blessing for the multitude
• The Eye of the Path
• Sharia court banned my play because it attacks hypocrisy in low places
• I am disappointed in NLNG judges
• A season of honours for Achebe
• Why Ohakim should come to our rescue – Prof Chukuezi
• There is a strong conection between literature, politics and
• C-o-n-t-r-o-v-e-r-s-y! It’s wrong for Nnolim to say we’re
• NLNG Award Night: Lessons from the controversy & boycott
• Kaine Agary’s yellowing of people’s hope
• Stories that will make you laugh
• At 60, Festus Iyayi says ‘I remain a radical’
• A Parade of Madmen @ Unilag
• Ogoni activist, Barry Wugale out with two books in S’Africa
• The other side of Eugenia Abu
• Ojaide sings The Tale of the Harmattan from Cape Town
• Book review
• Pavarotti: When the music stopped
• Wolf in the Flock! & The Widow and the Ruler
• Umuahia celebrates Sandscript
• Those who propound ‘African literature’ can’t explain it –Helon Habila
• Lagos writers on cloud nine on Patron’s Day
• Enigmatic lyrics of a rap artiste
• Who becomes the new laureate?
• Day Abuja ANA made history on the internet
• Abuja Book Club gets Nigerians reading again!
• Nigerian scholar in Sweden replies Binyavanga Wainana
• I earned more respect from National Assembly
• HALF OF A YELLOW SUN: Finally a total eclipse
• Leader in speeches, less so in action
• JUDE DIBIA:A new literary sensation in Nigeria
• This woman says she has written a bestseller
• Folktales for the tender-hearted
• Short story queen Ada Onwu on memory lane
• Overflow of words: a critical appraisal of a poet
• The anger of a stolen god
• BINYAVANGA’s ‘SATANIC VERSES’ FOR SALMAN RUSHDIE
• Chinweizu steals show as Fidelity Bank writing workshop ends
• Life in shambles
• GIMBA ABUBAKAR’s METAMORPHOSIS
• Man, Universe and drama
• A kingdom of royal vampire
• Glamour As Fidelity draws famous writers to Nigeria
• The New Gong makes giant
• In the footsteps of griots
• Exile is hell
• How to build a pyramid of riches
• I’ve Chris Okigbo’s missing manuscripts –Azuonye
• Fidelity causes Chimamanda to smile again
• Pilgrimage to Minna
• Sofowote’s literary prowess @ old age
• Book review
• My exploits in Belgium
• An evening with Nobel laureate Derek Walcott
• An artist and his literary adventures
• Ode to Chimamanda Adichie
• Yerimah begs Yar’Adua: Don’t sell National Theatre
• Ikere-Ekiti celebrates Osundare
• New Books: Nneka, The Hunchback debuts
• Is Chimamanda the new Achebe?
• Orange Prize winner speaks
• Poet Maxim Uzoatu replies critics
• Book review
• Extending literary frontiers: The onus on contemporary poets (2)
• Agony of writer in exile:I regret Nigeria has given me nothing
• Striving to revive reading culture
• Fireworks @ Authors’ Groove
• Life as a Nigerian writer in London
• Youthsville magazine debuts for creative minds
• Author scores Babangida regime high
• Chimamanda opened the door of success for me in US –Chris Abani
• A writer, painter and his debut novel
• To win this year’s NLNG Prize
• Book review: Amazons
• See archive