March 23rd, 2013
Legendary Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe died yesterday aged 82. In 1981, he addressed a writers’ conference at the University of Nigeria in Nsukka. Index on Censorship published this extraordinary speech the same year
April 3rd, 2012
Robert McCrum considers Index’s role in the history of the fight for free speech, from the oppression of the Cold War to censorship onlineTags: Tags: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Andrei Sakharov, Andrei Sinyavsky, Anna Politkovskaya, Bertrand Russell, Brazil, Cecil Day-Lewis, Charter 77, Cold War, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Dostoevsky, George Orwell, George Theiner, Graham Greene, Greece, Henry Moore, Igor Stravinsky, Isaac Babel, JB Priestley, John Milton, John Twyn, Lord Byron, Michael Scammell, Nadine Gordimer, Osip Mandelstam, Pavel Litvinov, Portugal, Roa Bastos, Robert McCrum, Russia, samizdat, Samuel Beckett, South Africa, Spain, Stephen Spender, Tom Paine, United Kingdom, USSR, Vaclav Havel, WH Auden, Writers and Scholars International, Yehudi Menuhin, Yuli Daniel,
