Remembering a Legend: Chinua Achebe recaptures for the literary world the inimitable legacies of Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), Africa’s leading novelist and literary philosopher of the 20th century. It addresses the…

Cultural devastation is witnessed in various fragmentations. This chapter analyses these fragmentations on the basis of the colonizers’ entry and its aftermaths affecting the culture step by step. The devastation…

This study note is suitable for English Literature A-Literature and undergraduate students. The book offers a high standard of literary criticism,ideas and thought-provoking questions.The guide is written by a literary…

A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe’s Civil Peace, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…

Offers the first comparative study of Toni Morrison and Chinua Achebe. Surveying both writers’ oeuvres, Christopher Okonkwo examines significant relations between Achebe’s and Morrison’s personal backgrounds, career histories, artistic visions…

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are…

A new essay focusing on the contribution of Chinua Achebe’s writing to Africa’s literary and political life, from the standpoint of the early twenty-first century, and the present state of…

Provides an introduction to the text and contexts of Things Fall Apart , surveying the interpretations of the text from publication onwards and the critical material that surrounds it. It…