Chinua Achebe

Fellow Nigerians, wherever two or more Nigerians are gathered and engaged in deep-heated discussions and arguments, you can immediately guess what the issue is all about, NIGERIA and our intractable problems. The questions on most lips today…

Let me start with a confession. I borrowed the title of this piece from the American Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The novel and its author have very interesting stories, for starters. John…

“Before you go on a journey of revenge, dig two graves” – Confucius Fellow Nigerians, please, let me start this epistle with a tale I’m not sure I have ever told. On Sunday, November 9, 2008, I was at the Lagos Marina with some friends when…

There cannot be silence anywhere dog is made to feast on leopard's tail. There was a civil war in Nigeria during which Chinua Achebe wrote ‘How the Leopard got its claws.’ It is a story of dog usurping the kingship of leopard because dog is…

I have not read a nonfiction in recent times as provocative as THE PRESIDENT’S KEEPERS: THOSE KEEPING ZUMA IN POWER AND OUT OF PRISON. This work is an irresistible page-turner. It is pacy, hot, evidential and an amazing piece of investigative…