For her towering achievement, Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite, Terri Ochiagha won the ASAUK Fage and Oliver Prize in 2016. Ochiagha spoke with many of their school friends and publishers also played a role in sharing memories and memorabilia. Okigbo and Amadi, despite themselves, would come to embrace the didactic mission of their friends, Achebe and Ike. Over the past three years, it has been a joy through a great deal of reading, through attendance at literary festivals and book fairs, to track the evolution of literary culture started by Achebe and his friends during their Umuahia school days. Things are coming together massively in Africa’s literary scene.

Source: The Guardian February 02, 2020 04:41 UTC