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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 ...
Since the early 1990s, several novels have been published to mark the advent of the third generation of Nigerian writers. During this time, some Nigerian writers wrote breakaway literature writings, which were quite different from the norm; such writings include: The Famished Road (1991) by Ben Okri, The Icarus Girl (2005) by Helen Oyeyemi, GraceLand (2004) by Chris Abani and Masters of the ...
But with the gift of Sweet Sixteen, there is the possibility that our author may have more to offer humanity in Literature than in politics." [ 3 ] The Daily Trust wrote that it was a "compelling tale, loaded with morality and textured with a rich lyrical prose and young adult lingo…story-story, my bestie, OMG among others."
Preferring to write in English, Achebe felt that the written standard Igbo language was stilted, which he connected to the fact that the standard was deliberately created by combining various dialects. In a 1994 interview with The Paris Review, Achebe said, "the novel form seems to go with the English language. There is a problem with the Igbo ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Nigerian English-language novels" The following 54 pages are in this ...
Its theme is the struggle for material wealth in Nigerian society. [59] [36] Chief Frederick Chidozie Ogbalu (1927–1990) was a Nigerian writer and educator known predominantly known for standardising the Igbo language through his Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture. Ogbalu in his lifetime published essays, guidebooks and novels in ...
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