The Talented Pat Lawrence Offers Plenty Of Great Books

‘Pat’ Adsit Burke along with Daniel ‘Lawrence’ Burke is the true definition of the saying ‘when two become one’. Although these two are the ones behind the writing of two great novels they cannot as individuals take the credit fro it. This is because the novels are written under the name Pat Lawrence which they derived from their own names, and thus to the world Pat Lawrence is one yet in real life they are two.

The couple began working together in 2007 as actors. They both cast in Ken Ludwig’s theater comedy production “Moon over Buffalo” and were selected to be the husband and wife combination Charlotte and George. A simple kiss sealed their partnership and saw the two getting married as well as forming collaboration in the business world.

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Chinua Achebe's “There Was a Country – A Personal History of Biafra”: A Review

BY UGOCHUKWU EJINKEONYE

At last, the world is hearing from Professor Chinua Achebe, Africa’s foremost novelist, distinguished intellectual and author of the classic, Things Fall Apart, on the Nigeria-Biafra war. In a new book (There Was a Country – A Personal History of Biafra, New York: Penguin, 2012),  Achebe presents a detailed account of what is widely regarded as the ‘genocidal Biafran war’ prosecuted forty-two years ago in which about 3 million people (mostly, unarmed civilians, including women and children) were brutally killed. When you talk about genocide in Africa, most people would eagerly prefer we all look towards Rwanda or Darfur, or even the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and not Biafra which happened about twenty years earlier and which Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe, professor of history and politics, in his review of Achebe’s memoir, describes as “Africa’s most expansive and devastating genocide of the 20th century.” 

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