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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Chinua_AchebeChinua Achebe - Wikipedia

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   Simon Gikandi A prevalent theme in Achebe's novels is the intersection of African tradition (particularly Igbo varieties) and modernity, especially as embodied by European colonialism. For example, the village of Umuofia in Things Fall Apart is violently shaken with internal divisions when the white Christian missionaries arrive. Nigerian English professor Ernest N. Emenyonu describes the ...

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Chinua-AchebeChinua Achebe | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

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   Sep 11, 2024 · Chinua Achebe was raised in Ogidi, Nigeria. He was born into the Igbo tribe, one of the country’s three major tribal groups. Ogidi was a focal point of Anglican missionary outreach in Nigeria, and the town’s role in this process likely influenced his views on the Westernization and Christianization of precolonial Nigerian cultures.

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   • Chinua Achebe is most famous for his novel Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, which tells the story of an Igbo village’s reaction to British mis...
   • Chinua Achebe’s work grappled with the reality of British imperialism’s effect on Nigerian traditions and customs. He discussed in frank terms the...

4. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2008/05/26Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel - The New Yorker

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   May 19, 2008 · Achebe at home in Annandale-on-Hudson. Photograph by Steve Pyke. In a myth told by the Igbo people of Nigeria, men once decided to send a messenger to ask Chuku, the supreme god, if the dead could ...

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5. www.britannica.com › summary › Chinua-AchebeChinua Achebe and his works | Britannica

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   Chinua Achebe, (born Nov. 16, 1930, Ogidi, Nigeria—died March 21, 2013, Boston, Mass., U.S.), Nigerian Igbo novelist. Concerned with emergent Africa at its moments of crisis, he is acclaimed for depictions of the disorientation accompanying the imposition of Western customs and values on traditional African society. Things Fall Apart (1958) and Arr...

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6. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWas Chinua Achebe Africa’s most influential author? - BBC

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   Chinua Achebe, who died last year, left more than books as his legacy. He inspired some of today’s most talented writers, argues Jane Ciabattari. ... This approach, he added, comes from Igbo ...

7. writersinspire.org › content › chinua-achebeChinua Achebe - Great Writers Inspire

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   Aug 11, 2020 · Date Published: 11 August 2020. Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013) was an Igbo writer and one of the most important voices in what is now referred to as postcolonial literature. He was born in Ogidi, several kilometres from the Niger River in the south of the territory which would become Nigeria in 1960, upon its independence from the British Empire.

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   How did Achebe influence African literature?

   • Achebe sought to escape the colonial perspective that framed African literature at the time, and drew from the traditions of the Igbo people, Christian influences, and the clash of Western and African values to create a uniquely African voice.

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   Did Achebe see himself as an African?

   • Achebe, in an essay called “African Literature as Restoration of Celebration,” has written, “I did not see myself as an African to begin with. . . . The white man was good and reasonable and intelligent and courageous. The savages arrayed against him were sinister and stupid or, at the most, cunning. I hated their guts.”

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   Who was Chinua Achebe?

   • When the legendary Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe died aged 82 on 21 March 2013, tributes poured from around the globe. His landmark novel Things Fall Apart, published in 1958 when he was 28, follows a traditional village patriarch in the 19 th Century, who experiences the arrival of Christian missionaries in what is now Nigeria.

   Was Chinua Achebe Africa’s most influential author? - BBC

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   Why did Achebe write Dirge for Okigbo?

   • In August 1967, Okigbo was killed fighting in the war. Achebe was shaken considerably by the loss; in 1971 he wrote " Dirge for Okigbo", originally in the Igbo language but later translated to English. As the war intensified, the Achebe family was forced to leave Enugu for the Biafran capital of Aba.

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   What makes Achebe a good book?

   • Moreover, Achebe’s prose is rich with the cadences of Nigerian English and Nigerian Pidgin, and is filled with numerous Igbo words and proverbs, bringing to print a linguistic form which celebrates the speech of people living in Nigeria.

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   How important is a depiction of the Igbo culture?

   • In his early writing, a depiction of the Igbo culture itself is paramount. Critic Nahem Yousaf highlights the importance of these depictions: "Around the tragic stories of Okonkwo and Ezeulu, Achebe sets about textualising Igbo cultural identity".

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9. link.springer.com › chapter › 10Chinua Achebe and the Development of Igbo/African Studies

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   This chapter examines the contributions of Chinua Achebe to the development of Igbo Studies in particular, and African Studies in general. 1 Conceived in the colonial context of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when very little was preserved in writing by the Africans on Igbo social life and customs, Achebe’s trilogy—Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960) and ...