Quote from Ndubuisi Ekekwe on June 8, 2026, 7:27 AM

When I dropped this line – “In my view, Ubesie remains the greatest novelist to have written in the Igbo language” about novelist, Tony Ubesie, I was waiting for a pushback. But it seems everyone agrees that Ubesie is the Chinua Achebe of Igbo novels on story telling.

Here is one validation from Facebook: ‘"Ubesie remains the greatest novelist to have written in the Igbo language." This is an undisputable statement of fact’.

Now, can we get Nollywood to turn “Isi Akwu Dara N'ala” into a movie? If we can get Ubesie’s family approval, I will contribute to the production. That book is a trilogy of James Hadley Chase (There's Always a Price Tag), Thomas Hardy (The Mayor of Casterbridge) and Bertha M Clay’s timeless Beyond Pardon and A Woman’s Temptation, all lumped into one novel.