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Chinua Achebe
Includes Things Fall Apart , No Longer at Ease , and Arrow of God . In Things Fall Apart the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, ‘strong man’ and tribal elder in…
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Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he…
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Dr. Toyin Falola
An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.
Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe's literary…
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Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his…
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Fifty new books at e1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry
He needed to hear Africa speak…
Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat - from his…
Amechi Nicholas Akwanya
This book is a new study of Chinua Achebe's novels in which they are read as works of literary art, as literary works are studied and discussed within the discipline…
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This book examines how Chinua Achebe presented the Igbo-African world in his writing by analyzing his engagement with critical issues like historical representation, gender, and indigenous political institutions. Contributors study…
Nahem Yousaf
This study casts back over Achebe’s writing career to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and criticism, including his Editorship of Heinemann’s acclaimed African Writers Series which has shaped…
Jago Morrison
A major new study of Africa’s most important writer, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Achebe’s work as a novelist, broadcaster and political thinker – .
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Catherine Lynnette Innes (University of Kent, Canterbury)
This book provides an examination of the writings of Chinua Achebe.
A. Ravenscroft
This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication…
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Chinua Achebe’s poetic output is gathered together in this volume by arguably the most influential African writer of the 20th century.
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way…
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This portrait of contemporary Africa is a fusion of myth, legend and modern styles.
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a long awaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic…
This novel about Nigeria prophesied the 1983 coup.
The celebrated author of Things Fall Apart delivers his first book in more than 20 years–a new collection of autobiographical essays that offers a vivid portrait of growing up in…
After an 11-year-old Nigerian boy leaves his small village to live with his uncle in the city, he is exposed to a range of new experiences and becomes fascinated with…
Africa’s most prominent writer and author of Things Fall Apart offers his first fully autobiographical work, which serves not only as a moving account of his exceptional life but also…
A collection of poetry spanning the full range of the African-born author’s acclaimed career has been updated to include seven never-before-published works, as well as much of his early poetry…
Chinua Achebe’s first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people’s lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought…
Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its ‘middle ground’, interrogating both the author’s happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and…
Arrow of God reverts to the tribal world. Ezeulu, the head priest of Ube,faces an erosion of values both from within his tribe and from without. On the one hand…
This autobiographical work by Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist and poet, is an exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through his own life. It is an extended…
First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Groups (USA) Inc., 2012 –Title page verso.
One of Africa’s most renowned novelists offers his thoughts on literature and politics in essays ranging from a highly unorthodox analysis of Joseph Conrad to a tribute to James Baldwin.
Asserts the author’s belief in Joseph Conrad as a ‘bloody racist’ and his conviction that Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. This…
Okonkwo, a man of the Ibo tribe in Nigeria at the end of the last century, is a person of substance, character and promise, but he and his people are…
‘…The story is the tragedy of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene … a very simple…
Achebe uses the ‘fall’ of one man, a descendent of the hero in Things Fall Apart, to depict the birth of a whole new age in Nigerian life - one…
The defining experience of author’s life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and vivid first-hand observation, this title is…
Achebe’s first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people’s lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about…
In a riveting fable for young readers about the potency and dangers of power taken by force, Nigerian writer Achebe ( Things Fall Apart ) evokes themes of liberation and…
M. Keith Booker
Several hundred A-Z entries cover Achebe’s major works, important characters and settings, key concepts and issues, and more.
Dr Jago Morrison
Chinua Achebe has an unchallenged reputation as the ‘Godfather’ of modern African writing. This Guide examines his key novels and enables students to navigate the field of Achebe criticism, setting…
Ezenwa-Ohaeto
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe’s THINGS FALL APART is the most widely read African novel. Since its publication in 1958, it has become a classic, often compared to Greek and Shakespearean…
The interviews collected here span more than thirty years of Chinua Achebe’s writing career. The earliest was recorded in 1962, the latest in 1995. Together they offer a representative sample…
