Chinua Achebe and the collapse of Nigeria’s literary intellectual class
Chinua Achebe ‘Father of African Literature’? One thing can be said about the literary intellectual class in Nigeria with certainty: it is close to bankruptcy. There is a world of difference between coffee room chat and serious intellectual discussion. Serious intellectual discussion requires some research and most Nigerians cannot be bothered with that. Serious intellectual research requires funding. Serious funding. This has not been available in Nigeria in any shape or form since the late 1980’s if not before….
