How a Famous Portrait of Achebe Came to Be and More #GreatReads

The fascinating story behind Chinua Achebe's 1959 portrait (taken after the publication of Things Fall Apart) as told by Africa is a Country
“We need to teach our girls to conquer the world" - Chimamanda Adiche on feminism, African women and the future of the continent's literature at the Royal African Society's first annual literary festival
Ten things you didn't know about 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature winner Alice Munro
New research shows that "those who frequently read books at age 10 and more than once a week when they were 16 had higher test results than those who read less" - all the more reason to encourage children to read!
A review of a new biography of former Nigerian ruler Ibrahim Babangida

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