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Followed by. Arrow of God. No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by a Nigerian author, 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 Nigerian colonial civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe.
Chinua Achebe in 1966. " An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness " is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in February 1975. The essay was included in his 1988 collection, Hopes and Impediments.
Things Fall Apart is the debut novel of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. [1] The novel depicts the events of pre-colonial life in Igboland, a cultural area in modern-day southeastern Nigeria, and the subsequent appearance of European missionaries and colonial forces in the late 19th century.
Simon Gikandi A prevalent theme in Achebe's novels is the intersection of African tradition (particularly Igbo varieties) and modernity, especially as embodied by European colonialism. For example, the village of Umuofia in Things Fall Apart is violently shaken with internal divisions when the white Christian missionaries arrive. Nigerian English professor Ernest N. Emenyonu describes the ...
Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. It was his fifth novel, first published in the United Kingdom 21 years after Achebe's previous one (A Man of the People in 1966), and was credited with having "revived his reputation in Britain". [1] A finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, Anthills of the ...
T. Things Fall Apart. Categories: Works by Chinua Achebe. Nigerian novels by writer.
Hopes and Impediments. Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965–1987 is collection of essays by Chinua Achebe, published in 1988. [1] Several of the essays caution against generalizing all African people into a monolithic culture, or using Africa as a facile metaphor. [2] The opening essay, " An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart ...
64 pp. Chike and the River is a children's story by Chinua Achebe. It was first published in South Africa in the year 1966 by Cambridge University Press, [1] with illustrations by Prue Theobalds, and was the first of several children's stories Achebe would write. The latest reprint has a cover design by Victor Ekpuk. [2][3]