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Published: Wednesday, 29 May 2013 17:40

Nigerian Community Turkey (NICOT) General Meeting is scheduled on 1st June 2013.

Time: 5pm Prompt.

Venue: YORUBA HOUSE. Sehit Ertugrul Kabataş Cad. Karanfil Sok. No: 6, Bekir Bey Apt. behind BİM Supermarket, Gulbağ Mercidiyeköy, Istanbul Turkey.

Please endeavour to come and contribute your quota.

Chinua Achebe: 1930 – 2013

Details: Published: Thursday, 23 May 2013 07:41

The death of Africa’s foremost writer

Critic and cultural pathologist, Chinualumogu Albert Achebe is a great loss to a world where the wisdom of sacred spoken and written words is observed with high reverence.

A way to measure the loss could be the quantum of tributes that have continued to pour in from writers, Presidents across the world, the Senate of State of New York, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the National Assembly.

They eulogised Achebe as a penetrating writer with acute imagination, as a global citizen with outstanding concerns for the world’s problems. Achebe, like Okonkwo, the hero of his famous novel,

Things Fall Apart, at a young age, established his fame with his landscaping, Things Fall Apart, an imaginative narrative, which he wrote at 28. He was admitted to the University of Ibadan to read medicine, but after a year, he opted for English and found his passion in elevating Africa through the African story.