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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 ...
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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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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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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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 ...
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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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 ...