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Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe

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Name: Chinua Achebe
Birth Date: November 15, 1930
Place of Birth: Ogidi, Nigeria
Nationality: Nigerian
Gender: Male
Occupations: novelist

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Biography of Chinua Achebe
1048 words, approx. 3.5 pages
Chinua Achebe (born 1930) is one of the foremost Nigerian novelists. His novels are primarily directed to an African audience, but their psychological insights have gained them universal acceptance. Chinua Achebe was born into an Ibo family on Nov. 15, 1...
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Biography of Chinua Achebe
10126 words, approx. 33.8 pages
Chinua Achebe is arguably the most discussed African writer of his generation. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), has become a classic. It has been read and discussed by readers throughout the anglophone world and has been translated into some fo...
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Biography of (Albert) Chinua(lumogu) Achebe
8479 words, approx. 28.3 pages
Chinua Achebe is arguably the most discussed African writer of his generation. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), has become a classic. It has been read and discussed by readers throughout the anglophone world and has been translated into some fo...


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Anthills of the Savannah Summary
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Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe Born in 1930, in Ogidi in the state of Anambra, Nigeria, Chinua Achebe is the best known Anglophone African writer. Achebe attended an elite secondary school, Government College, Umuahia, during his highschool...
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Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. A finalist for the 1987 Booker Prize for Fiction, it has been described as the "most important novel to come out of Africa in the...


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The Nation
Anthills of the Savannah. (book reviews)
04/16/1988: 1,566 words, approx. 5 pages
ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH In "Civil Peace," a story he wrote seventeen years ago, Chinua Achebe noted how the violence of civil war inevitably outlives the actual conflict, and barely pausing for breath, extends itself into peacetime. As a band of thieves threatens...
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
Different story, different strategy: a comparative study of Achebe's style(s) in a man of the people and Anthills of the Savannah.(Literature)
01/01/2003: 5,145 words, approx. 17 pages
ABSTRACT Literary style, the meeting point between literary criticism and linguistic analysis, is the focus of this paper. The study demonstrates the viability of collaboration between principles of the two approaches. Focusing on two novels of the world-acclaimed African novelist, Chinua Achebe, the...
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Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction
6/13/2007: 606 words, approx. 2 pages
Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan.The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction.Achebe, 76, is best known for his first...
 


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