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- After an automobile accident in Nigeria in 1990 that left him partially paralyzed, he moved to the United States, where he taught at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. In 2009 Achebe left Bard to join the faculty of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Sep 11, 2024 · After an automobile accident in Nigeria in 1990 that left him partially paralyzed, he moved to the United States, where he taught at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. In 2009 Achebe left Bard to join the faculty of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Chinua Achebe
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- 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 poin...
- 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...
When Achebe drafted Things Fall Apart in the mid-1950s, he wrote against the dynamic, anxious background of a soon-to-be-independent Nigeria. So why, given the significance of Nigeria’s coming independence, did Achebe write a novel about the precolonial past?
Mar 22, 2013 · Nigeria got its independence in 1960, so although there is sorrow and sadness that he has died, he has passed on at age 82, Nigerians are immensely proud of Chinua Achebe.
When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe supported Biafran independence and acted as ambassador for the people of the movement.
Apr 2, 2014 · The 1990s began with tragedy: Achebe was in a car accident in Nigeria that left him paralyzed from the waist down and would confine him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Soon after, he...
May 27, 2008 · Achebe was partly paralyzed in a car accident in Nigeria in 1990. For most of the years since then, he's lived and taught at Bard College in New York.
Chris Abani read Achebe’s The Arrow of God when he was in college in Nigeria – and it left a profound impact. “It’s an incredible novel,” he said.
