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Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

Tuesday, February 2, 2012

 

Things Fall Apart Saga? 50 Cents Forced To Change Name Of His New Movie

Hip-Hop Artiste turned Actor, 50 Cent, has changed the name of his new movie title after the legal counsel of renowned African writer, Chinua Achebe, reached out to him.

Chinua Achebe

50 Cent was forced to change the movie title from “Things Fall Apart” to “All Things Fall Apart” because it mirrors the name of Chinua Achebe’s classic novel published in June 1958.

INFRINGEMENT: Despite offering $1Million, 50 Cent's bid to use the name THINGS FALL APART for his latest movie was blocked by Chinua Achebe's legal counsel.

 A source said, Chinua Achebe was offered $1 million dollars by the producers of the movie but he declined and released a statement saying:

“The novel with the said title was first produced in 1958 (17 years before 50cent was born), listed as the most widely read book in modern African literature, and will not be sold for One Billion Dollars”



50 Cents

THAT CLASSIC NOVEL: Chinua Achebe released THINGS FALL APART in 1958, 17years before the birth of 50cent.

All Things Fall Apart was shot sometime last year, in the movie 50 Cent lost a considerable amount of weight in order to play a cancer victim.  

The movie is set to be hit the movie screens in the very near future.

The Tender Face Of Famine In The Horn Of Africa

Spare A Thought For  This Starving Somali Child In A Kenyan Refugee Camp, And Wonder Like I am Doing Here When  Africa Will Outgrow

Heart-Rending Images Like This! 

Photo Credit: The Telegraph (UK)

(July 2011)

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Africa
Africa my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs
Africa of whom my grandmother sings
On the banks of the distant river
I have never known you
But your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields
The blood of your sweat
The sweat of your work
The work of your slavery
Africa, tell me Africa
Is this your back that is unbent
This back that never breaks under the weight of humiliation
This back trembling with red scars
And saying no to the whip under the midday sun
But a grave voice answers me
Impetuous child that tree, young and strong
That tree over there
Splendidly alone amidst white and faded flowers
That is your Africa springing up anew
Springing up patiently, obstinately
Whose fruit bit by bit acquires
The bitter taste of liberty.

--David Diop (1927-1960)

Gov Peter Obi Condoles With Ejinkeonye on Mother's Death

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Sunday Independent (Lagos)
Sunday, June 25, 2011

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has sent a letter of condolence to Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye on the death of his mother, Mrs. Eunice Ejinkeonye.

In the letter personally signed by him, Obi implored the entire Ejinkeonye family "to be of good courage since your late mother has only left this world to join her Creator".

-Mama Eunice Diugwo Ejinkeonye In January 2011-

(Born In 1924, She Passed On Peacefully In June 2011, Aged 87)

According to the governor: "Though she died at an old age, death, no mater how and when it comes, is always a painful experience. In the brotherhood of humanity and Christianity, I share your grief with you."

He prayed God to grant the entire family the fortitude to bear the loss.

Mrs. Ejinkeonye, aged 87, was an exemplary mother, mentor, Christian and community (women's) leader.

She is survived by five children, many grandchildren and great grandchildren, among them, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, was until recently a Columnist and Member of the Independent Newspapers Limited Editorial Board.

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SOURCE: AllAfrica.com

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TUESDAY, June 28, 2011, Page 57

Journalist Loses Mum

A community leader, Mrs. Eunice Ejinkeonye, will be buried on Thursday. She was 87.

The funeral service will hold at St. Michael's Catholic Mission, Amakor, Umuaka in Imo State.

She will be interred at the Ejinkeonye family compound. A Christian wake holds tomorrow at the same venue.

The late Mrs. Ejinkeonye is survived by, among others, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, former Editorial Board Member of Daily Independent.

Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has condoled with Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye. Obi implored the Ejinkeonyes " to be of good courage since your late mother has only left this world to join her Creator." 

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Face To Face With President (For-Life?) Yoweri Museveni Of Uganda

Kenyan Journalist, Linus Kaikai, Interviews Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni,

On NTVKenya, Nairobi, (May 1, 2011)
WATCH

This interview with Mr. Yoweri Museveni, the sit-tight president of Uganda and the proud champion of "No-Term-Limit" Presidential System never ceases to rankle. What do these leaders in Africa really think they are? Mini-gods? Well, it is left for Ugandans to go on tolerating him or  resolve NOW to let the wind of change blowing across North Africa and the Middle East to reach Kampala also. The task of freeing the whole of Africa from "presidents-for-life", corrupt incompetent dictators and even psuedo-democratically imposed pretenders is an important and urgent one. It is a shame for any African to ask to be excused from it.

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President Yoweri Museveni
of Uganda

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