The four generations: Nigerian literature, the Booker Prize and beyond
Nigerian literature owes a lot to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart - but there is much more to this ever-evolving story.
An excerpt from The Aesthetic Cold War
In “Africa and Her Writers,” a feisty Chinua Achebe begins by proclaiming, “Art for art's sake is just another piece of deodorized dog shit.
Arrow of God (novel by Achebe) | Summary & Significance
Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God (1964) is a novel set in 1920s Nigeria that traces the struggles of Ezeulu, an Igbo high priest,...
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
Chinua Achebe of Nigeria was one of the most famous 20th Century African writers. He published his first novel Things Fall Apart in 1958 and...
Chinua Achebe | Biography, Books, & Facts
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the social and psychological disorientation accompanying the...
Fall 1999 Online Response: Things Fall Apart
Essay by Robert Baah, Associate Professor of Spanish. Photos by Jimi Lott. "The first time I read Things Fall Apart, I knew it was a good book," recalls...
A history of person, country in ‘There Was a Country’
There Was a Country A Personal History of Biafra. Chinua Achebe Penguin Press: 352 pp., $27.95. Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author of the...
There Will Be a Memoir: Chinua Achebe and Biafra
Chinua Achebe's memoir, There Was a Country, will be published tomorrow, and I will buy it and read it. That's just a given.
Chinua Achebe reflects on Biafra, but for whom?
Achebe's "There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra" reopens old wounds about the civil war.
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An author who critiqued Nigerian leadership and governance in his works.