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Chinua Achebe was born on 16 November 1930 and baptised Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe. [ 1 ] [ a ] His father, Isaiah Okafo Achebe, was a teacher and evangelist, and his mother, Janet Anaenechi Iloegbunam, was the daughter of a blacksmith from Awka , [ 3 ] a leader among church women, and a vegetable farmer.
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Chinua Achebe.It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Colonial Nigeria civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe.
Achebe in Lagos, 1966; eight years after the publication of Things Fall Apart. Things Fall Apart was Chinua Achebe's first novel. After graduating from the University of Ibadan in 1953, he became a teacher in Oba, Anambra State, before working in the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) the following year. During his stay at NBC, he started ...
It's hailed as one of the greatest works of fiction to emerge from Africa. But Things Fall Apart was written in English, sparking debate about the colonisation of language.
The bibliography of Chinua Achebe includes journalism, essays, novels, poems, and non-fiction books written by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe (1930–2013). Achebe was a prolific writer on topics related to the colonialism of the British Nigeria .
Dead Men's Path is a short story by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, first published in 1953. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The short-story has been noted as an example of cultural conflict . [ 3 ]
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra is a personal account by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe of the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War. [1] [2] [3] It is considered one of the defining works of modern African non-fiction. [2] [4] Released in October 2012, six months prior to Achebe's death, it is the author's last ...
—Chinua Achebe. 75. ... "I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should ...