Tag: CHINUA ACHEBE
Achebe’s daughter bags Harvard Medical School award
Maureen Achebe, daughter of the late novelist Chinua Achebe, has been presented the Brigham and Women’s Hospital 2024 faculty development and diversity award.
Achebe was...
Tinubu names road in Abuja after Chinua Achebe
President Bola Tinubu has named the M18 road in the Guzape District of Abuja after the late novelist Chinua Achebe.
Tinubu made this announcement during...
Soyinka can never be the man Achebe was – Charly Boy
Musician Charly Boy has expressed disappointed in Nobel laureate Prof Wole Soyinka over the latter's remarks about supporters of the Labour Party’s presidential candidate...
Achebe’s son wins global prize in medicine
Chidi Achebe, son of the late renowned author Chinua Achebe, has won the John and Samuel Bard Award in the United States for excellence...
Chinua Achebe’s daughter marks father’s eighth death anniversary
Nwando Achebe daughter of the late novelist, poet, and essayist Chinua Achebe on Sunday marked her father's eighth death anniversary with a touching note...
Achebe’s comment on my Nobel prize disappointed me – Soyinka
Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says he was disappointed by a comment made by the late novelist Chinua Achebe shortly after he (Soyinka) won the...
First Nigerian woman to play table tennis, Mabel Segun, turns 90
Eminent playwright, poet, broadcaster and sportswoman, Mabel Segun, celebrated her 90th birthday on Tuesday, February 18.
It was a lowkey celebration witnessed by close family,
friends...
Reno Omokri’s controversial statement sparks Soyinka, Achebe debate
A controversial statement by Reno Omokri, former aide
to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, about Professor Wole Soyinka’s merit of
Nobel Prize for Literature has sparked wild debate...
I’d pick Achebe 100 times over Soyinka for Nobel Prize –...
Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan,
has questioned Professor Wole Soyinka’s merit of Nobel Prize for Literature
over late renowned writer, Chinua Achebe.
Omokri, known...
Children’s literature receives boost in 2019 NLNG literature prize
No less
than 173 entries have been submitted to the Nigeria Prize for Literature
sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG).
The
prize focuses on children’s literature in...