QUOTES WITH «ACHEBE»
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Achebe.
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACHEBE»
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Achebe in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Achebe and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
Reviews: 'No writer is better placed than Chinua Achebe to tell the story of the Nigerian Biafran war ... [The book] makes you pine for the likes of Achebe to govern .
With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hurtle towards tragedy. Chinua Achebe's stark novel reshaped both African and world literature.
Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, and a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe's remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism, the first ...
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Conversations with Chinua
Achebe
This is what literature, what art, is supposed to do: to give us a second handle on reality so that when it becomes necessary to do so, we can turn to art and find a way out. So it is a serious matter."
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Chinua
Achebe: A Biography
This biography of Chinua Achebe captures how his personal characteristics have combined with historical events to produce the man who cleared the frontiers of literature for Africa North America: Indiana U Press; Nigeria: HEBN
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Emerging Perspectives on Chinua
Achebe
The essays in this book provide global perspectives of Achebe as an artist with a proper sense of history and an imaginative writer with an inviolable sense of cultural mission and political commitment.
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Reading Chinua
Achebe: Language & Ideology in Fiction
Analysis of the writings of Chinua Achebe aimed at students of literature.
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The Trouble with Nigeria
"The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership," concludes internationally acclaimed writer Chinua Achebe
Dr Innes examines chronologically Chinua Achebe's novels (including the classics Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God), his short stories, essays, poetry, lectures and activities, in the context of Nigerian cultures and politics, and their ...
Catherine Lynette Innes, 1992
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Chinua
Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook
Presents critical essays on "Things fall apart" from a variety of perspectives, including ethnographic, pedagogical, and ideological ones.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACHEBE»
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Achebe is used in the context of the following news items.
Poverty of intellectualism in Nigeria
Last but not the least of the writers whose writings have had a tremendous influence on my intellectual development is our own Chinua Achebe, ... «The Guardian Nigeria, Jul 15»
Taiye Selasi: stop pigeonholing African writers
It was 1963 when Chinua Achebe, reflecting on a conference of African authors, wrote: “There was [one] thing that we tried to do and failed ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Urgent: Africa's own Global TelevisionChannel
... is the message in what the African character in Chiekh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure told a French man and which Chinua Achebe ... «Daily Trust, Jul 15»
Opinion: Tell The Whole Story
As she grew older, she discovered African authors like Chinua Achebe and declared that the discovery of these authors “saved” her (n.B. ... «DailyNorthShore.com, Jul 15»
Five Debut Nigerian Novels to Read in 2015
Nigeria is an acknowledged giant in world literature. Whilst Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie are the usual ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
Patrick Achebe Releases Debut Book, Whispering Waves: Poems …
With “Whispering Waves”, PCK Achebe has given us poems that expand hearts and minds so we can reach out and drink from the ... «PR Web, Jul 15»
Anthony Doerr: By the Book
There are so many amazing pieces of fiction in that book — arranged alphabetically from Chinua Achebe to Richard Wright. I discovered ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
The youth's sacrifices must not be in vain
Let me put it this way: if we accept what Chinua Achebe said many years ago, about the problem with black African leaders having an inability ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
Buhari will adhere to rule of law, says Onu
... for enduring democracy. The event attracted many eminent Nigerians, notable among whom was the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe. «The Guardian Nigeria, Jul 15»
Machel speaks from the heart to inspire students
"Dr Chris Barnard, Chinua Achebe, Isabel dos Santos are worth mentioning. These leaders have shown the rest of the world the immense ... «BDlive, Jun 15»
