And Achebe Goes Home
This week the remains of the foremost African novelist, story teller, literary artist par excellence, critic, patriot and activist, Professor Chinualumogu Achebe will be flown home from Brown...
View ArticleSix Years After: Has Elechi Proved His Critics Wrong?
Precisely six years ago, Chief Martin Elechi rode on the wings of popular acclaim to emerge as the second executive governor of Ebonyi state. His emergence was, to say the truth, like the anointing of...
View ArticleA Tribute to My Teacher
Eteng: Is This the End or Synthesis of Sociological Postulations? It is difficult to write about Inya Abam Eteng, Professor Emeritus, in the yesterday tense. It is difficult to believe that one of the...
View ArticleOmezue Anthony Ekoh: The Sunset of a Radiant Star
In the morning of March 20, I was driving past the office of Pharmacist Omezue Anthony Ogbonnia Ekoh situated along the popular and ever busy Water Works Road, Abakaliki when I noticed one thing: the...
View ArticleThe Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido and the Politics of 2015
The announcement of suspended former CBN governor, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as the new Emir of Kano did not come to many watchers of the predominantly Talakawa city as a surprise. Rather, if the...
View ArticleMy Tears for Dora Akunyili
The news from Mr Peter Obi of the death of Professor Dora Akunyili on the 7th of June in far away India, was not cheering and was indeed too painful to absorb. Till her death, I have not come across...
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