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The Demise of the Eagle on the Iroko: Chinua Achebe (II)

Chinua Achebe, with others of his generation of writers – a gneration that includes Africa’s and black’s first nobel laureat, Wole  Soyinka, J.P Clark

Polio: Intimidation can only boomerang

Today, in several European countries, Holocaust denial is punishable by law. But it does not stop the ranks of the deniers from swelling as more and m

Learning African politics through Chinua Achebe (III)

Although Achebe makes it clear that traditional religion is still strong in the minds of most converts, he does not make the mistake of downplaying th

Becoming algebra ninjas: why Arewa may never fail O-Level math again (part I)

When it was reported in the news that only 17 out of the 18,000 secondary school students who sat for WAEC and NECO in Gombe State passed, many though

Jigawa in the Northern jigsaw puzzle

Arriving Dutse and beholding the emergence of a modern capital city in the heart of a hitherto desolate hinterland of Nigeria was ecstatic. Asphalted