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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.
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]
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.
1972 – Chinua Achebe leaves his position following the publication of his short story collection Girls At War as the hundredth book in the series. Sambrook, Currey, Higo and Chakava take over editorial duties collectively with the support of Akin Thomas, editorial director of HEB Nigeria.
Arrow of God, published in 1964, is the third novel by Chinua Achebe.Along with Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease, it is considered part of The African Trilogy, sharing similar settings and themes.
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.
An Igbo fable concerning the tortoise and the birds has gained wide distribution because it occurs in the famous novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. [16] The tortoise, who is a West African trickster figure, hears of a feast to be given by the sky-dwellers to the birds and persuades them to take him with them, winged in their feathers ...
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]