Most Popular posts of Chinua Achebe
Tracing Chinua Achebe's Background - His Earliest Life and Schooling in Nigeria
by
Arthur Smith
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart which is the most widely-read and discussed book in modern African literature, described his writing as an attempt to set the historical record straight by showing that African people did not hear of culture for the first time from Europeans, that their societies were not mindless but had a philosophy of great depth and value and beauty, that they had poetry and above all, they had dignity. Achebe who unlike his Kenyan counterpart, Ngugi Wathiongo, wrote his novels in English, has defended the use of English, ...
http://ezinearticles.com/?Tracing-Chinua-Achebes-Background----His-Earliest-Life-and-Schooling-in-Nigeria
id=1468245 - Sep 04, 2008
Riding on the Crests of the Success of Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe's International Celebrity
by
Arthur Smith
This article details the reception of Chinua Achebe's seminal work all over the world and showing how the international success of the work has brought its author an international celebrity status that even defies his present handicap. Things Fall Apart has indeed emerged as the first African classic novel taking its place alongside works by Dickens, Austen, Flaubert, Tolstoy and Hawthorne.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Riding-on-the-Crests-of-the-Success-of-Things-Fall-Apart---Chinua-Achebes-International-Celebrity
id=1521850 - Sep 23, 2008
Chinua Achebe's Country, Biafra
by
Osita Ebiem
This article reviews Chinua Achebe's recent memoir; There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra. Achebe is the world renowned author of Things Fall Apart. In this his new book he writes about how the Biafran story helped shape his own personal story. Achebe insists that because there was genocide against his people then they were pushed into establishing their own country Biafra.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Chinua-Achebes-Country,-Biafra
id=7444526 - Dec 31, 2012
Book Review: Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
by
Chris Saliba
Things Fall Apart by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has sold millions of copies since it was first published in 1958. The novel shows how a potent and powerful Christian theology can be used, almost unconsciously, to usher in an aggressive cultural and political take over of a native people.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Book-Review:-Things-Fall-Apart,-by-Chinua-Achebe
id=6275735 - May 17, 2011
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe's Snapshot of Nigerian Colonization
by
Paul Thomson
Chinua Achebe is a multi award-winning Nigerian writer and one of the most important African authors of all time. He is also the most translated - which is saying something, considering that he writes in English specifically for the purpose of bridging language barriers.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Things-Fall-Apart---Chinua-Achebes-Snapshot-of-Nigerian-Colonization
id=3141050 - Oct 23, 2009
Marking 50 Years of Achebe's Things Fall Apart - Maintaining a Proud Presence in World Literature
by
Arthur Smith
50 years ago in 1958 a young Nigerian, Chinua Achebe at the age of 28 made major breakthrough for African Literature with the publication of his novel Things Fall Apart which became widely read and recommended in schools and colleges all over the world. I could remember reading it for two years in succession 30 years ago when I was in secondary school and all of us in the class were as thrilled not only by the events but by the infectiously fresh idioms and imageries used to describe characters and scenes.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Marking-50-Years-of-Achebes-Things-Fall-Apart---Maintaining-a-Proud-Presence-in-World-Literature
id=1426326 - Aug 20, 2008
Playing the Game - Subverting Colonial Power Structures in Mathabane's Kaffir Boy and Chinua Achebe
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Paul Thomson
Mark Mathabane's 1986 autobiography, Kaffir Boy, describes his upbringing under South African apartheid and the process by which he escapes to the United States. A bright student, young Mark devours the books his mother's white employer lends him, and through their relationship, he also begins playing tennis - which was pretty high on the list of white and upper-crusty sports in those days. Under the guidance of a black player, Mark becomes so skilled that he is invited to play at an all-white tennis club.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Playing-the-Game---Subverting-Colonial-Power-Structures-in-Mathabanes-Kaffir-Boy-and-Chinua-Achebe
id=3359577 - Dec 02, 2009
The Politics Of Animal Stories - Chinua Achebe
by
Anuradha Basu
Achebe's short story 'What Has Literature Got to Do With It' links literature to creation. It asks the pertinent question whether stories create people or people create stories. The work is an examination of the reversal of political and social order through the symbol of an animal story and examines the threat authority faces and the impending nature of transition in society.
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Politics-Of-Animal-Stories---Chinua-Achebe
id=6202178 - Apr 21, 2011
Plans For the Worldwide Celebration of the Silver Jubilee of Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart'
by
Arthur Smith
Given the fame and popularity of Achebe's Things Fall Apart over the years, it will not be out of place to say that it has even grown well beyond Achebe's imagination and expectation. Across the universities of the world, the book is now a staple in the study of the humanities, with whole libraries of theses and dissertations been written on it as a timeless piece of literature whose appeal and penetration continues to grow and increase with the passage of time.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Plans-For-the-Worldwide-Celebration-of-the-Silver-Jubilee-of-Achebes-Things-Fall-Apart
id=1426686 - Aug 21, 2008
How Things Fall Apart Was Written, The Making of the African Novel
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John Otim
If we seek to understand history, few events would illumine better the circumstances and the moments preceding and surrounding the rise of the modern African novel. One seemingly innocuous event was a dinner party at the campus home of Professor Molly Mahood, head of the department of English at the then brand new University College Ibadan in colonial Nigeria. At table was the entire faculty
http://ezinearticles.com/?How-Things-Fall-Apart-Was-Written,-The-Making-of-the-African-Novel