Tag: Nigerian Civil War

The Second Coming

March 23, 2013

Last night, the great African writer Chinua Achebe passed away in Boston, Massachusetts, aged 82 years old. Up until his death, he was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in the United States. Chinua Achebe has a special place in Jamaicans’ hearts – largely because of his … More The Second Coming

African Postman: “We Remember Differently”

November 24, 2012

Following up on my recent post on the African Writers’ Series, I am still in literary vein. This very interesting article came up on in a tweet from Nigeria’s “Vanguard” newspaper, which I follow. There are several “African connections” for Jamaica here. The author of this article, Chimamanda Adichie, was born in Biafra (as it … More African Postman: “We Remember Differently”

African Postman: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

July 27, 2012

Originally posted on LadyRomp:
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer. She is Igbo. She has been called “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature”. Born in the town of Enugu, she grew up in the university town of Nsukka in…