• N’Goné Fall

Against a backdrop of global collapse, one exhibition used Chinua Achebe’s classic to hold space for voices from the Global South—and asked who gets to imagine the future.

• Cheta Nwanze

American style democracy will only throw up more more leaders like Goodluck Jonathan.

• Raoul J. Granqvist

It is striking that that the topics his hosts discussed with Achebe in those days are still animating us.

• Elnathan John

If a journalist reports on the unsavory parts of Nigeria, attack them on Twitter. For reporting while white. There's no comeback when you bring race into it.

• Boima Tucker

Dutty Artz and Africa Is a Country co-present the EP, "L'Afrique Est Un Pays," as a gift to Africa is a Country readers. For a limited time you can download the EP by liking our Facebook page.

• Raoul J. Granqvist

The story of how the most famous portrait of a young Chinua Achebe was taken at his house in Enugu, Nigeria in 1959 by American photographer, Eliot Elisofon.

• Percy Zvomuya

A meditation on left footed footballers, especially wingers, given the conventional wisdom that lefties are always useful to have in a match.

• Jesse Weaver Shipley

Chinua Achebe’s legacy is not fixed but rather about responding to change with energy and wit.

• Mukoma wa Ngugi

To my ear Achebe’s voice is always measured even at its most defiant.

• Cheta Nwanze

Comparisons between Chinua Achebe and Nigeria's other great writer, Wole Soyinka, will increase, now Achebe has passed.

• Jumoke Verissimo

Achebe's "There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra" reopens old wounds about the civil war.

• Orlando Reade

This thing about a boat on The Thames named for the one Joseph Conrad sailed up the River Congo before writing Heart of Darkness.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

A quick read of comments to recent posts defending gay rights, point to how deep-seated and widespread homophobia is in Nigeria.

• Sean Henry Jacobs
• Rich Blint

An interview with Rich Blint, a James Baldwin scholar. Biggest takeaway: Baldwin lamented the fragile human impulse for categorization.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Africans are like the man in the Igbo proverb who does not know where the rain began to beat him and so cannot say where he dried his body.

• Jeremy Weate

Cricket is gloriously multilayered, with strategy and tactics available in abundance.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Here's some things I did not have the time to blog about properly or link to this past week. It's Weekend Special.