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2. www.youtube.com › watchRemembering Nigerian author Chinua Achebe - YouTube

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   The acclaimed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at the age of eighty-two. A statement released on behalf of his family described Chinua Achebe as one o...

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   In January the this year Prof. Chinua Achebe was invited to return to his homeland for the first time in a decade to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of hi...

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   Join us on a journey through the remarkable life of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic whose groundbreaking works, including "...

5. 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 ...

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   May 23, 2013 · OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) — Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country's elite came to praise him. Hundreds attended Achebe's funeral among the rolling hills of his eastern Nigeria home, a service that saw President Goodluck ...

7. www.bbc.co.uk › programmes › m000v2snBBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist

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   Apr 13, 2021 · Great Lives. Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown picks Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe.

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   Is Chinua Achebe still alive?

   • RM D52X9A – Mar 21, 2013 - FILE - Chinua Achebe, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, November 16 1930 - March 21, 2013, has died at 82 following a brief illness. Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

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   In which places was Chinua Achebe in the news?

   • RM D52AR1 – FILE - Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in Frankfurt Main, Germany on 12 October 2002. RM EKY2G7 – The front cover of Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe was photographed against a black background. Chinua Achebe died in the night from the 21 to the 22 March 2013 in a hospital in Boston, USA.

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   Where did Chinua Achebe grow up?

   • Chinua Achebe was born and raised in the Igbo region of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria with five siblings. The Nigerian native excelled in his education and went to University College in Nigeria, studying English, history and theology.

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   What is Achebe a story about?

   • The novel is a picture of pre-colonial village society on the eve of colonization and the introduction of Christianity. Achebe paints an over-idealized picture, underplaying the tensions, struggles for power, and family conflicts that existed in southern Nigerian society.

   Chinua Achebe: A Reflection of When Things Fall Apart

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   What is Achebe's view of society?

   • Achebe’s basic view is one of a society (which also represents the whole world) steadily disintegrating, falling apart by the impact of centrifugal forces in the political-economic world. The Arrow of God reflects the early years of British colonialism in southern Nigeria.

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   What did Achebe do for Biafra?

   • Achebe was both the editor of the cultural journal of Biafra with some ill-defined responsibilities for cultural activities within the break-away state and an informal ambassador-spokesperson for Biafra in the USA and Western Europe where his novels were known.

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   Mar 24, 2013 · The death in a Boston hospital on March 21, 2013 of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, about whom it was said that his writings were “concerned with universal human communication across racial and cultural boundaries as a means of fostering respect for all people” came just at the start of the UN-sponsored 2013-2022 International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures.