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Gothic Architecture of Westminster Abbey Tower in London

April 23, 2025 / Last updated : April 23, 2025 Azuka Onwuka Grammar and Pronunciation

Fooled by the BBC: My encounter with the charm of British English

However, when I got to Heathrow Airport in London, I received the first shock. The accent I heard from the immigration officials and others at the airport was different from what I heard on the BBC.

December 19, 2024 / Last updated : December 23, 2024 Azuka Onwuka Musings

Does Wole Soyinka deserve to win the Nobel Prize in Literature?

By Azuka Onwuka Definitely yes! I have heard some people dissing him on his Nobel Prize and literary works. You can disagree with him on his strange fixation on Peter Obi as well as deafening silence on Tinubu at a time Nigeria is in deep crisis, but it will be petty to argue that Soyinka […]

Chinua Achebe. Photo: ©2007 Frank Fournier

November 20, 2024 / Last updated : December 23, 2024 Azuka Onwuka Social Issues

Lazy, no – Achebe’s Unoka was just unlucky to live in the wrong economy

A diversified economy makes it easy for people to succeed no matter their skills. Unoka of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart would have excelled in a diversified economy as an artiste and thinker.