Biography EssayChinua 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 reade...
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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.Ch...
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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...
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Critical Essay by Kate Turkington
Achebe's first three novels, Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God have been published as a trilogy. His last novel to date (and surely, now, t...
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Critical Essay by Adrian A. Roscoe
[Achebe's declared aims as a writer] are twofold: to teach his people, and to satirise them; or, as he puts it, 'to help my society regain its belief i...
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Critical Essay by John Povey
Chinua Achebe is very clearly the best novelist in that group of writers who at Ibadan in the fifties contrived the birth of West African literature in English. He may lac...
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Critical Essay by The New Yorker
[The stories in "Girls at War and Other Stories"] show, among other things, how British colonialism, the disintegration of tribal ways, modern education,...
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Critical Essay by Ifeanyi A. Menkiti
The mood [of Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems] is as varied as the subject matter. The opening section deals with the years immediately before the Nigerian Civi...
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Critical Essay by The New York Times Book Review
"Girls at War" is ironic, witty and complex in its consideration of various ways in which the old Africa interacts with the new.
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Critical Essay by Francis M. Sibley
[Chinua Achebe's four novels] are all set in Nigeria. Read as a tetralogy, they reveal a theme of tragedy together with intense moral concern. The tragedy an...
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Critical Essay by G. D. Killam
[Achebe's short stories in Girls At War] reveal the same interests as the longer fiction….
[The stories] fall into two classes: those which show an aspect ...
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Critical Essay by Jonathan Peters
A Man of the People, Achebe's fourth novel, embodies a major new feature in his development as a novelist. It is a first person narrative told from the limited...
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Critical Essay by Time
[In A Man of the People Achebe] illuminates today's confused events along the opaque waters of the Niger. Life imitates art, but seldom so promptly on cue. Achebe'...
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Critical Essay by Phoebe-lou Adams
[Arrow of God] is not comfortable reading, nor is it easy to keep track of three dozen minor characters with names like Ofuedu and Amoge, but Arrow of God is worth t...
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Critical Essay by Ronald Christ
Before he opens ["Arrow of God"], the American reader will be well advised to ask himself two basic questions. Is he about to read it because it's ...
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Critical Essay by Charles Miller
In reading Arrow of God, it's not … necessary to know that there is such a place as the African continent to recognize at once that you are in the presen...
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In the following interview, originally conducted on May 28, 1989, and first published in Callaloo in 1991, Achebe discusses the role of the writer and literature in an African context, paying particul...
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Ten Kortenaar has written other scholarly articles on Achebe. In the following essay, he compares similarities in the narrative strategies of the colonized and the colonizer to define their respective...
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In the following essay, Adeeko examines various manipulations of a thematic Nigerian proverb in Arrow of God, arguing that its intentional misuse contributes to the novel's tragedy.
Proverbs ar...
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In the following essay, Awuyah analyzes Ezeulu's attitudes toward colonial authorities in Arrow of God, focusing on the significance of his decision to send Oduche to a Christian missionary sch...
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In the following essay, Kanaganayakam compares and contrasts Achebe's narrative technique in Anthills of the Savannah to that of his earlier works.
Twenty-one years after the publication of A M...
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Wachtel is a writer and radio personality who hosts CBC Radio's Sunday literary program "Writers & Company." In the following interview, originally broadcast in January, 1994,...
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In the following essay, Robson examines various types of English that appear in Anthills of the Savannah, demonstrating how each reflects differences in education, social status, and cultural context....
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Kalu is an American educator whose research interests include multiculturalism, women in the African diaspora, African and African-American literary theory construction, and African development issues...
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Albert Chinualumugo Achebe, son of Isaiah Okafa and Janet N. Achebe, was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. His parents bestowed upon him many Igbo traditions even though they were evangelic...
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In th poem "Refugee Mother and Child" by Chinua Achebe the sadness of death is shown by creating a tragic atmosphere by introducing shocking images and strong words.
At the beginning, in the first ...
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Chinua Achebe
(Albert) Chinua(lumogu) Achebe
