Chinua Achebe
The Illustrated Things Fall Apart
This special, large-format, lavishly-illustrated edition of Things Fall Apart, 'Africa's best loved novel', is a timely tribute to 'the father of modern African Literature'. It is published to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of a book now considered a classic of African and World Literature. This edition uniquely blends the enduring simplicity of Achebe's tale with the creative visual talents of some of Nigeria's best and bright contemporary artists. The result is a book that will appeal to lovers of African Literature and Art the world over. A treasured testament to the art of story-tellling, Things Fall Apart Illustrated is bound to become a collector's item.
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's By Chinua Achebe
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" is the published version of the second Chancellor’s Lecture given by Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, in February 1975.
Conversations with Chinua Achebe By Chinua Achebe
Conversations with Chinua Achebe
Book by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe's books are being read throughout the Engish-speaking world. They have been translated into more than fifty languages. ...
Authors: Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors
Copyright date: October 1, 1997
Book by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe's books are being read throughout the Engish-speaking world. They have been translated into more than fifty languages. ...
Authors: Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors
Copyright date: October 1, 1997
Chinua Achebe: Tributes and Reflections By Nana Ayebia Clarke
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) is widely recognized as the founding father of modern African literature in English. His first novel, Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, not only contested European narratives about Africa, but also challenged assumptions about the form and function of the novel.
Throughout his long career, Achebe was a voice for the peoples of Africa and also a formative influence on a new generation of African writers. This volume of tributes and reflections is a fitting testament to his legacy.
Throughout his long career, Achebe was a voice for the peoples of Africa and also a formative influence on a new generation of African writers. This volume of tributes and reflections is a fitting testament to his legacy.
Girls at war and other stories By Chinua Achebe
Girls at war and other stories
The madman.--The voter.--Marriage is a private affair.--Akucke.--Chike's school days.--The sacriticial egg.--Vengeful creditor.--Dead men's path.--Uncle Ben's choice.--Civil peace.--Sugar baby.--Girls at war.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Copyright date: August 1, 1991
The madman.--The voter.--Marriage is a private affair.--Akucke.--Chike's school days.--The sacriticial egg.--Vengeful creditor.--Dead men's path.--Uncle Ben's choice.--Civil peace.--Sugar baby.--Girls at war.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Copyright date: August 1, 1991
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Achebe or Soyinka: A Study in Contrasts By Kole Omotoso
This is a study of Africa's most widely read, and, arguably, her finest writers. Despite their shared nationality and levels of prestige, each represents a distinct pole of Nigerian writing. On the one hand, there is Wole Soyinka, the playful imagist steeped in the myth and magic of his native Yoruba culture; at the other end of the spectrum, Chinua Achebe's internalized Igbo cultural traditions. Kole Omotoso - himself a prolific writer and prize-winning Nigerian novelist - explores and defines the differences in style, background, and vision betweem the two men. Individual chapters describe the childhood and early experiences of each writer, their cultural influences, education, life styles, and political involvement. Omotoso also observes the responses of Nigerian, British and American critics to their output, with a final chapter dedicated to the vision of each writer for Nigeria. An extensive bibliography completes the volume
The Education of a British-Protected Child By Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe’s characteristically eloquent and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. From a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria to considerations on the African-American Diaspora, from a glimpse into his extraordinary family life and his thoughts on the potent symbolism of President Obama’s elections—this charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and steadfastly wise collection is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.
Home and Exile By Chinua Achebe
“A rare opportunity to glimpse a bit of the man behind the monumental novels.” —Chicago Tribune
Powerful and deeply personal, these three essays by the great Nigerian author articulate his mission to rescue African culture from the narratives written by Europeans. Looking through the prism of his experiences as a student in English schools in Nigeria, he recalls his first encounters with European perspectives on Africa in the works of Joyce Cary and Elspeth Huxley. He examines the impact that his novel Things Fall Apart—as well as fellow Nigerian Amos Tutola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard and Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mt. Kenya, among other works—had on efforts to reclaim Africa’s story. He confronts the persistence of colonial views of Africa. And he argues for the importance of living and writing the African experience: Africa needs stories told by Africans.
Powerful and deeply personal, these three essays by the great Nigerian author articulate his mission to rescue African culture from the narratives written by Europeans. Looking through the prism of his experiences as a student in English schools in Nigeria, he recalls his first encounters with European perspectives on Africa in the works of Joyce Cary and Elspeth Huxley. He examines the impact that his novel Things Fall Apart—as well as fellow Nigerian Amos Tutola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard and Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mt. Kenya, among other works—had on efforts to reclaim Africa’s story. He confronts the persistence of colonial views of Africa. And he argues for the importance of living and writing the African experience: Africa needs stories told by Africans.
Chike and the River By Chinua Achebe
Chike and the River
Book by Chinua Achebe
Chike and the River is a children's story by Chinua Achebe. It was written in 1966, and was the first of several children's stories Achebe would write.
Published: 1966
Author: Chinua Achebe
Original language: English
Genres: Children's literature, Novel
Book by Chinua Achebe
Chike and the River is a children's story by Chinua Achebe. It was written in 1966, and was the first of several children's stories Achebe would write.
Published: 1966
Author: Chinua Achebe
Original language: English
Genres: Children's literature, Novel
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Morning yet on creation day: Essays By Chinua Achebe
“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.”
― Chinua Achebe, Morning yet on creation day: Essays
― Chinua Achebe, Morning yet on creation day: Essays
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The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994 By Chinua Achebe
The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa 1945-1994
Book by Chinua Achebe
For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with political independence arriving for most peoples only in the last fifty years. ...
Author: Chinua Achebe
Copyright date: April 1, 2001
Book by Chinua Achebe
For much of Africa the 20th century was overshadowed by the experience of colonial rule, with political independence arriving for most peoples only in the last fifty years. ...
Author: Chinua Achebe
Copyright date: April 1, 2001
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Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-1987 By Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
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Chinua Achebe's books are being read throughout the Engish-speaking world. They have been translated into more than fifty languages. ... Google Books
Authors: Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors
Copyright date: October 1, 1997
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-1987
One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing ...
Author: Chinua Achebe
Copyright date: 1988
Book by Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe's books are being read throughout the Engish-speaking world. They have been translated into more than fifty languages. ... Google Books
Authors: Chinua Achebe, Bernth Lindfors
Copyright date: October 1, 1997
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965-1987
One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing ...
Author: Chinua Achebe
Copyright date: 1988
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Another Africa By Chinua Achebe
Another Africa
Photographs and text help profile the culture, economy, social relationships, and people of Africa.
Authors: Chinua Achebe, Robert Lyons
Copyright date: November 13, 1998
Photographs and text help profile the culture, economy, social relationships, and people of Africa.
Authors: Chinua Achebe, Robert Lyons
Copyright date: November 13, 1998
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African Short Stories By Chinua Achebe
This anthology of 20 stories are from all over Africa, grouped geographically into four different sections - West, East, North and Southern Africa.
How the leopard got his claws By Chinua Achebe
How the leopard got his claws
Recounts how the leopard got his claws and teeth and why he rules the forest with terror.
Author: Chinua Achebe
Recounts how the leopard got his claws and teeth and why he rules the forest with terror.
Author: Chinua Achebe
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The Flute By Chinua Achebe
A young boy sets out to retrieve his lost flute, and encounters spirits who give him a magical pot.
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No Longer At Ease By Chinua Achebe
The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him parts of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society
Anthills Of The Savannah By Chinua Achebe
Anthills of the Savannah is a frightening look at oil-boom Nigeria, a world of robberies, road blocks and intimidation in which those who are meant to be protecting a country's citizens are in reality supervising the looting.
Things Fall Apart By Chinua Achebe
THINGS FALL APART tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which center around Okonkwo, a “strong man” of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first of these stories traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world in which he lives, and in its classical purity of line and economical beauty it provides us with a powerful fable about the immemorial conflict between the individual and society.
The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. THINGS FALL APART is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within
The second story, which is as modern as the first is ancient, and which elevates the book to a tragic plane, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world through the arrival of aggressive, proselytizing European missionaries. These twin dramas are perfectly harmonized, and they are modulated by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul. THINGS FALL APART is the most illuminating and permanent monument we have to the modern African experience as seen from within
Arrow of God By Chinua Achebe
Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son.
A Man Of The People By Chinua Achebe
By the renowned author of "Things Fall Apart," this novel foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds.
The Trouble With Nigeria By Chinua Achebe
The eminent African novelist and critic, here addresses Nigeria's problems, aiming to challenge the resignation of Nigerians and inspire them to reject old habits which inhibit Nigeria from becoming a modern and attractive country. In this famous book now reprinted, he professes that the only trouble with Nigeria is the failure of leadership, because with good leaders Nigeria could resolve its inherent problems such as tribalism; lack of patriotism; social injustice and the cult of mediocrity; indiscipline; and corruption
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There Was A Country: A Personal History Of Biafra By Chinua Achebe
In the aftermath of the release of Chinua Achebe's book titled There Was a
Country: A Personal History of Biafra and his article published in the Guardian
on 2 October 2012, there have been many debates about the Biafra war.
Some have accused Achebe of stirring up old wounds by resurrecting the "B"
question, while others are appalled at his comment about Awolowo’s policies,
which Achebe claims resulted in the starvation of millions of people. Some
have suggested that rather than heap the blame on Nigerian officials, Achebe
should have heaped the blame on the Biafran leaders who embarked on a
war knowing that their army was ill equipped to take on the Nigerian forces.
The debate has also taken a tribal dimension with many Igbo’s rallying behind
Professor Achebe, while many Yoruba’s have taken to the opposite side by
expressing their displeasure at Achebe, while defending Awolowo’s legacy.
Regardless of what Achebe said or did not say, it does not deny the fact that
his article in the Guardian and his new book are timely. For a very long time,
the Biafra question keeps on coming up again and again. On one hand, the
Igbo's feel aggrieved by what they experienced during the war, while on the
other hand, the rest of the country feel that the Biafra war occurred long ago
and that the Igbo's should get over it and move on.
Unfortunately, the current debate triggered by Achebe’s article and book has
resulted in many of us focusing on the principal players in the war, rather than
focusing on the underlying issue at hand: i.e. the genocide that took place
during the three year war. One problem with focusing on the principal actors
such as Yakubu Gowon, Obafemi Awolowo, Chinua Achebe, Emeka Ojukwu,
Olusegun Obasanjo, Brigadier Adekunle, Murtala Mohammed etc is that none
of these actors were significantly impacted by the war. They and most of their
family all came out of the war, intact, healthy and alive. However, what we
need to revisit as a nation is the tragic story of the millions of people (majority
children) who died as a result of man’s cruelty to man.
THIS IS REALLY A MUST GET BOOK!
Country: A Personal History of Biafra and his article published in the Guardian
on 2 October 2012, there have been many debates about the Biafra war.
Some have accused Achebe of stirring up old wounds by resurrecting the "B"
question, while others are appalled at his comment about Awolowo’s policies,
which Achebe claims resulted in the starvation of millions of people. Some
have suggested that rather than heap the blame on Nigerian officials, Achebe
should have heaped the blame on the Biafran leaders who embarked on a
war knowing that their army was ill equipped to take on the Nigerian forces.
The debate has also taken a tribal dimension with many Igbo’s rallying behind
Professor Achebe, while many Yoruba’s have taken to the opposite side by
expressing their displeasure at Achebe, while defending Awolowo’s legacy.
Regardless of what Achebe said or did not say, it does not deny the fact that
his article in the Guardian and his new book are timely. For a very long time,
the Biafra question keeps on coming up again and again. On one hand, the
Igbo's feel aggrieved by what they experienced during the war, while on the
other hand, the rest of the country feel that the Biafra war occurred long ago
and that the Igbo's should get over it and move on.
Unfortunately, the current debate triggered by Achebe’s article and book has
resulted in many of us focusing on the principal players in the war, rather than
focusing on the underlying issue at hand: i.e. the genocide that took place
during the three year war. One problem with focusing on the principal actors
such as Yakubu Gowon, Obafemi Awolowo, Chinua Achebe, Emeka Ojukwu,
Olusegun Obasanjo, Brigadier Adekunle, Murtala Mohammed etc is that none
of these actors were significantly impacted by the war. They and most of their
family all came out of the war, intact, healthy and alive. However, what we
need to revisit as a nation is the tragic story of the millions of people (majority
children) who died as a result of man’s cruelty to man.
THIS IS REALLY A MUST GET BOOK!
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