Items

• World Service

  "8:15 Off The Shelf: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. An exiled warrior returns to his village."
• Sunday 17 May

  "10:15 The South Bank Show Melvyn Bragg profiles the Nigerian writers Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinua Achebe (2/2)"
• Sunday 10 May

  "The South Bank Show. The first of two shows profiling the writers Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"
• Spring Announcements

  The short announcement mentions the release of Francis Cary [sic] Slater's new collection of poetry, "Dark Folk and Other Poems," along with a few other works also being published by Blackwoods.
• Sky One

  BBC4 7:00 pm Chinua Achebe: Profile
• Sky One

  "BBC4...7:30 Chinua Achebe"
• Satellite, cable and digital

  "12:25 Chinua Achebe profile"
• Radio

  "The Classic Serial: Things fall apart, by Chinua Achebe."
• Radio

  "Today 9 March"
• Monday 16 November

  "1:30 Chinua Achebe's Lament"
• Main Channels Wednesday 25 March

  "9:06 Chinua Achebe - A Hero Returns"
• Main Channels Monday 9 June

  "Book at Bedtime: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe"
• Main Channels Friday 27 March

  "2.06 Chinua Achebe - A hero returns"
• Heinemann Educational Books

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• Longmans

  The announcement features African writers whose novels/collections have recently been published. Major poets include Wole Soyinka (Black Orpheus), John Pepper Clark (A Reed in the Tide) and Christina Ama Ata Aidoo (The Dilemma of a Ghost). Excerpt: "The Dilemma of a Ghost: Christina Ama Ata Aidoo. A lively play in five acts. It is set in Ghana and tells of problems in a Ghanaian family when the eldest son brings home an Afro-American wife."
• Birthdays

  "Ben Okri, Novelist, 50"
• World Service

  "10.30. The Play of the Week: A Month and A Day. Drama based on the diaries written during his imprisonment by the executed Nigerian writer and activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa."