Nobel prize winning author Nadine Gordimer has celebrated the legacy of the late writer Chinua Achebe at the M&G Literary festival. Wits vice-chancellor Adam Habib opened the M&G Literary Festival ...

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) is not just a seminal work of African literature by the literary icon—it also serves as a profound metaphor for the current political turmoil in Nigeria.

Like the people of Umuofia, in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the people of Emanyulia flatter themselves with the thought that they are great souls from the land of the brave. You recall the ...