‘There was a Country’ by Chinua Achebe
Achebe masterfully relates his experience, both as he lived it and how he has come to understand it. He begins his story with Nigeria’s birth pangs an
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The death of the novel will presage a rebirth of writing
There is constant and loud debate about the death of the novel – Will Self was voicing his doubts about it only this week – but far less debate (thoug
Daughters Who Walk This Path
Soon after Morayo enters secondary school and begins to know what it feels like to be attracted to boys, the story becomes darker. The political atmos
Navigating the Land of the Dead in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water
The only story from Prison Stories excised from the Waiting for an Angel revision was “The Iron Gate,” which describes the response to a multi-nationa
What an abomination
‘So what is the great emergency?’ ‘This’ she said, handing me a photo of her half-brother and half-sister in a beautiful portrait pose. ‘This is your