88th birthday of Chinua Achebe

(Born 16 November 1930, Ogidi, Biafra)

Father of African Literature

Selected works: Things Fall Apart (1958) No Longer at Ease (1960),  Arrow of God (1964),  A Man of the People (1966),  Beware Soul Brother (1971), Girls at War and other Stories (1973), Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975), “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness” (1975), Don’t let him die: An anthology of memorial poems for Christopher Okigbo (ed., 1978), The Trouble with Nigeria (1984),  Anthills of the Savannah (1987), Hopes and Impediments (1988), “Our Mission” (1989), “African Literature as Restoration of Celebration” (1990), Home and Exile (2000), Collected Poems (2004), There was a Country (2012)

(George Russell Sextet, “Ezzthetics” [personnel: Russell, piano; Don Ellis, trumpet; Dave Baker, trombone; Eric Dolphy, alto saxophone; Steve Swallow, bass; Joe Hunt, drums; recorded: Riverside Records, New York, US, 8 May 1961])

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is the author of African Literature in Defence of History: An essay on Chinua Achebe (2001) and author, with Lakeson Okwuonicha, of Why Donald Trump is great for Africa (2018)

(https://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.com/2018/11/kindle-edition-out-why-donald-trump-is.html)

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

87th birthday of Chinua Achebe

(Born 16 November 1930, Ogidi, Biafra)

Father of African Literature

Selected works: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Beware Soul Brother, Girls at War and other Stories, Morning Yet on Creation Day, The Trouble with Nigeria, “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”, Anthills of the Savannah, Hopes and Impediments, “Our Mission”, Collected Poems, “African Literature as Restoration of Celebration”, Home and Exile, There was a Country

(Herbie Nichols Trio, “The prophetic” {Vol I} [personnel: Nichols, piano; Al McKibbon, bass; Art Blakey, drums; recorded: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, US, 6 May 1955])

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe