Thomas Mofolo’s 1907 ‘masterpiece’ novel offers the reader a journey of body and soul

A review and a re-view of Nigerian Chinua Achebe’s revolutionary novel written in 1958

The classic novel by Chinua Achebe, and how it came to be, are legendary African tales

Khaleb Omondi struggled to build up his bookshop in Nairobi’s notorious slum. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato ?tells a story of life against the odds.

The memorial for Chinua Achebe is expected to draw thousands as mourners prepare to pay their respects to "the father of modern African literature".

Novelist Chinua Achebe’s writing has traced the dehumanising effects of the western cultural arrogance still at work today in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Chinua Achebe, who has died aged 82, was Africa’s best-known novelist and the founding father of African fiction.

Percy Zvomuya celebrates a trove of new essays by the master of the middle way, Chinua Achebe