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1. www.today.com › popculture › nigerian-author-chinuaNigerian author Chinua Achebe dies at 82 - TODAY

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   Mar 22, 2013 · March 22, 2013, 5:11 AM PDT. By Eun Kyung Kim, TODAY contributor. Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist and poet whose 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart" addressed the effects of colonialism on African ...

2. www.today.com › news › grandfather-africanGrandfather of African literature, Chinua Achebe, dies aged 82

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   Mar 22, 2013 · LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit ...

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4. literariness.org › 2019/03/24 › analysis-of-chinuaAnalysis of Chinua Achebe’s Novels – Literary Theory and ...

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   Mar 24, 2019 · Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013) is probably both the most widely known and the most representative African novelist. He may very well have written the first African novel of real literary merit—such at least is the opinion of Charles Larson—and he deals with what one can call the classic issue that preoccupies his fellow novelists, the clash ...

5. www.bbc.co.uk › news › world-africa-21896414Chinua Achebe: Obituary of Nigeria's renowned author - BBC

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   Mar 22, 2013 · 22 March 2013. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who has died aged 82, was revered throughout the world for his depiction of life in Africa. He wrote about the effects of colonialism and its ...

6. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › p015sh93The death of Chinua Achebe - BBC

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   Mar 22, 2013 · The death of Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe obit; Joe Driscoll and Sekou Kouyate; Show more. The best of the world's arts, film, music and literature brought to you every day. Presented by Anna ...

7. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › fullBetween Realism and Modernism: Chinua Achebe and the Making ...

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   Oct 31, 2019 · In “Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Literature,” I argued that Achebe was the person who invented African literature (Gikandi 2001). This contention has irked other writers of his generation, and it has been vigorously contested by numerous critics who find it unhelpful in positioning Achebe's work “in literary and cultural terms” (Morrison 2014 , 31).

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   Who was Chinua Achebe?

   • Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013) is probably both the most widely known and the most representative African novelist. He may very well have written the first African novel of real literary merit—such at least is the opinion of Charles Larson—and he deals with what one can call the classic issue that preoccupies his fellow novelists, the clash…

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   What did Chinua Achebe write?

   • He wrote about the effects of colonialism and its aftermath, as well as political corruption and attempts to introduce democratic reforms. Born in 1930, he has often been referred to as the founding father of African literature in English. Chinua Achebe said that any good story or any good novel should have a message and a purpose.

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   Why did Chinua Achebe write Things Fall Apart?

   • Chinua Achebe said that any good story or any good novel should have a message and a purpose. His first novel - the groundbreaking Things Fall Apart, published in 1958 - dealt with the clash between Western and traditional African values - and how traditional norms and values had been undermined.

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   Why was Chinua Achebe awarded the booker man International Prize?

   • The award of the Booker Man International Prize for Literature to Chinua Achebe in 2007 was perhaps the single most important acknowledgment of the role he had played in the emergence of African literature and the transformation of world literature in the twentieth century.

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   Why did Achebe leave Nigeria?

   • After a car crash in 1990 which left him partially paralysed and in a wheel chair, Achebe moved to live in the US - only returning to Nigeria infrequently. But he continued to write and his novels, poems and essays and in his later years he was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government.

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   What does Achebe mean by Chi?

   • Achebe’s most pervasive vehicle for this idea of tolerance, however, is in the concept of the chi, which is central to Igbo cosmology. Achebe interprets it as the ultimate expression of individualism, the basic worth and independence of every person. Politically it means the rejection of any authoritarian rule.

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9. www.cambridge.org › core › journalsTerri Ochiagha. A Short History of Chinua Achebe’s Things ...

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   Terri Ochiagha presents an eloquent and distinctive background to Chinua Achebe’s iconic novel Things Fall Apart (hereafter TFA) in nine essays spanning three sections: “Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre,” “The Blood Dimmed Tide is Loosed,” and “Spiritus Mundi.