Books
Chinua Achebe Wins Lifetime Award
Chinua Achebe, one of the founding fathers of African literature, this week won a Man Booker International award, in tribute to his lifetime contribution to literature.
Achebe has been championing a positive view of Africa since he first wrote his novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ in 1958 to provide an alternative narrative to the notions of Africa as a place [...]
Madonna’s Not Our Saviour
On Wednesday, Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie won the Orange prize for literature for her novel, Half Of A Yellow Sun, about the Biafran war. (Congratulations to her!) In an interesting interview in the Guardian entitled “Madonna’s not our saviour” she talks about showing a different side of Africa, a more positive and balanced side of [...]