Sola Osofisan
05-10-2009, 02:18 PM
South Bank Show
Two of Africa’s leading writers talk in depth to Melvyn Bragg in an extraordinary double edition of The South Bank Show; to transmit on two consecutive Sundays, the 10th and 17th May 2009. A fascinating insight into literary Africa, the film looks at the works of the multi award winning novelist Chinua Achebe, who wrote Things Fall Apart which is considered to be the greatest African novel of the 20th century; and Africa’s latest and hottest literary property Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
From different generations, Achebe and Adichie’s lives and paths seem to have crossed in many ways and have many similarities. Both are from Igboland in Nigeria and, in a chance in a million, Adichie was then brought up in Achebe’s old house in the university town of Nsukka.
More (http://www.itv.com/PressCentre/TheSouthBankShow/Ep7AchebeandAdichieOutofNigeriaWk21/default.html)
Two of Africa’s leading writers talk in depth to Melvyn Bragg in an extraordinary double edition of The South Bank Show; to transmit on two consecutive Sundays, the 10th and 17th May 2009. A fascinating insight into literary Africa, the film looks at the works of the multi award winning novelist Chinua Achebe, who wrote Things Fall Apart which is considered to be the greatest African novel of the 20th century; and Africa’s latest and hottest literary property Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
From different generations, Achebe and Adichie’s lives and paths seem to have crossed in many ways and have many similarities. Both are from Igboland in Nigeria and, in a chance in a million, Adichie was then brought up in Achebe’s old house in the university town of Nsukka.
More (http://www.itv.com/PressCentre/TheSouthBankShow/Ep7AchebeandAdichieOutofNigeriaWk21/default.html)