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Organized by the Society of Young Nigerian Writers (Anambra State) in association with the Chinua Achebe Literary Festival and Memorial Lecture, [5] [6] the anthology was initiated in 2016 by Izunna Okafor, a Nigerian writer and journalist who also serves as the Editor-in-Chief. [7]
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 .
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.
Considered the most important founding figure of English-language literature in West Africa, Chinua Achebe, winner of the 2002 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, made his debut as a novelist and poet with Things Fall Apart (1958), [8] [9] which, along with No Longer at Ease (1960), [10] [11] is his magnum opus. His novels place African ...
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.
First edition (publ. Doubleday) 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]
As underlined by African Affairs, the top-ranked Africanist journal, [5] the book can be considered between an academic and a popular text, allowing the reader to become interested in the subject even if they are not Africa experts. [6] As Chinua Achebe explained in a foreword to Dowden's book: "Africa is a vast continent, a continent of people
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