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The day the mountain fell: A look at how and why predictions of environmental disaster were ignored in a country recovering from war and disease. by Paul Glynn I FIRST became aware of the environmental crisis facing Freetown while living there in...

Two Burundi officials have been imprisoned after the African country's president was allegedly "roughed up" in a football match they organised. A judicial source told AFP the officials were arrested on charges of "conspiracy against the president"  President Pierre Nkurunziza is...

Jean Toomer and the Triadic Identity Benjamin Odhoji, Writer of the Year JALC 2013 CANE comprises poems, sketches, episodic stories and dramatic passages. Is it a novel? Does it reflect the tradition of cohesive thematic and structural unity? What kind of historic...

The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example, which are the hallmarks of true leadership. (Achebe) Literature, leadership, citizenship issues of modern Nigeria by Chin Ce, 2005 Writer...

Two Africas in One Joe Ushie, 2008 Writer of the Year  Writer of the Year, JAL, No. 5 2008. IN Africa, whether in orate pre-colonial period or after, literature has never been a phenomenon detachable from the material realities of the...