Chinua Achebe – Su'eddie in Life n' Literature

2020/09/08

WORKING TO GIVE BIRTH TO CHINUA EZENWA-OHAETO’S THE TEENAGER WHO BECAME MY MOTHER

Hello world, I have been absent from here for a bit and my health has been a part of the reasons but there are some conversations that need to keep on being had. So, let’s get to one of them…

It is no news that the SEVHAGE chapbook series is coming back in full, or is it? Okay, maybe. But I am sure it is no news that Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto won our SEVHAGE/Angya Poetry Prize 2019 (supported by Eunice Spring of Life Foundation). I guess the news is that we are releasing the winning poem, ‘Every Month a Year’ alongside other poems from his entry and others into a chapbook, ‘The teenager who became my mother.’

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2017/11/04

Documentary Review: Dancing Mask: The ANA Story by Carl Terver

I once learnt that the title to a piece of work is like an abstract, letting the consumer in on what the work is about. My head is still dancing around how the idea was begat that the title of this documentary should have anything to do with ‘dancing mask.’ Whoever thought up the idea … Continue reading Documentary Review: Dancing Mask: The ANA Story by Carl Terver

2016/03/09

Beware Soul Brother (A Poem) by Chinua Achebe

We are the men of soul men of song we measure out our joys and agonies too, our long, long passion week in paces of the dance. We have come to know from surfeit of suffering that even the Cross need not be a dead end nor total loss if we should go to it … Continue reading Beware Soul Brother (A Poem) by Chinua Achebe

2014/30/122014/30/12

A WAKE FOR OKIGBO (A POEM) by Chinua Achebe

For whom are we searching? For whom are we searching? For Okigbo we are searching! Nzomalizo! Has he gone for firewood, let him return. Has he gone to fetch water, let him return. Has he gone to the marketplace, let him return. For Okigbo we are searching! Nzomalizo! For whom are we searching? For whom … Continue reading A WAKE FOR OKIGBO (A POEM) by Chinua Achebe

2014/02/022015/05/05

REFUGEE MOTHER AND CHILD (A Poem) by Chinua Achebe

No Madonna and Child could touch that picture of a mother’s tenderness for a son she soon would have to forget. The air was heavy with odours of diarrhoea of unwashed children with washed-out ribs and dried-up bottoms struggling in laboured steps behind blown empty bellies. Most mothers there had long ceased to care but … Continue reading REFUGEE MOTHER AND CHILD (A Poem) by Chinua Achebe

2013/08/092013/08/09

BIKO AND THE TOUGH ALCHEMY OF AFRICA – BEN OKRI

(Full Transcribed version of the 13th Steve Biko Memorial lecture delivered by Ben Okri on September 12th, 2012) Molweni! Vice-Chancellor, Max Price, Mr Nkosinathi Biko, members of the extraordinary Biko family, members of the Board of Trustees, the Minister of National Planning, Deputy-Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, distinguished guests, comrades, ladies and gentlemen – … Continue reading BIKO AND THE TOUGH ALCHEMY OF AFRICA – BEN OKRI

2013/26/052013/27/05

LITERARY BUZZ: PURPLE SILVER OPEN MIC SESSION (25th May, 2013): DISCUSSION

DISCUSSION BUZZ: The Symbols Cuisine Gallery. 7pm. We walked in, Maik Ortserga (Executive Editor with Aboki Publishers and Secretary of Benue Association of Nigerian Authors) and I. There was Anselm Ngutsav, Apine Kenneth and Stephen Aba. I was still wondering if I had made the right choice of forfeiting my Abuja trip for this session – … Continue reading LITERARY BUZZ: PURPLE SILVER OPEN MIC SESSION (25th May, 2013): DISCUSSION

2013/02/05

CHINUA ACHEBE: Something of thoughts (A Tribute) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema

There’s little that can be said about Chinua Achebe that has not been said. Little to know about him that even the most ignorant of us has not caught in the last one month and so days. From the greatest of orators and the very best of writers to unheard names, common people and … Continue reading CHINUA ACHEBE: Something of thoughts (A Tribute) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema

2013/25/04

LOVE CYCLE (A Poem) by Chinua Achebe

At dawn slowly the sun withdraws his long misty arms of embrace. Happy lovers whose exertions leave no aftertaste nor slush of love’s combustion; Earth perfumed in dewdrop fragrance wakes to whispers of soft-eyed light… Later he will wear out his temper ploughing the vast acres of heaven and take it out of her in … Continue reading LOVE CYCLE (A Poem) by Chinua Achebe

2013/24/03

Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws? – Niyi Osundare

Chinua Achebe is one of those epically unique individuals whose lives have been so full, so purposive and so impactful that we begin to pray that they will never die. But who doesn’t know that that is mere wishful thinking? To be sure, the Eagle on Iroko didn’t die young, but he left when … Continue reading Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws? – Niyi Osundare

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