30 JUNE 2007, page 28

Global Warning

At my time of life, and in my circumstances, I ought to be calm and unruffled. I should be like a saddhu in a Himalayan cave, whose pulse rate no merely external event in the......

'it Was All Because Of The Spectator, You Know'

Chinua Achebe, the grandfather of African literature, talks to Clemency Burton-Hill about writing in English, his native Nigeria — and the role this magazine played in his story......