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Achebe's use of Igbo language, speech patterns, proverbs, and richly drawn characters creates an authentic African story that effectively bridges the cultural and historical gap between the reader and the Igbo.
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Nov 28, 2018 · It’s hailed as one of the greatest works of fiction to emerge from Africa. But Things Fall Apart was written in English, sparking debate about the colonisation of language.
Because Achebe wrote in English, portrayed Igbo life from the point of view of an African man, and used the language of his people, he was able to greatly influence African novelists, who viewed him as a mentor.
- Chinua Achebe
- 1958
In a famous essay called “The African Writer and the English Language,” Achebe pointed out the difference between national language and ethnic language. This difference arises from the artificial drawing of African national boundaries by the colonizing powers, without regard to ethnic fault lines.
Oct 31, 2019 · For Achebe, the gift was the English language and the literary conventions associated with it, which he assumed were essential to African self-fashioning: The real question is not whether Africans could write in English, but whether they ought to.
- Simon Gikandi
- 2019
Jun 4, 2017 · Achebe defends in this essay the use of English by African writers, affirming the value of a language that reaches such a wide audience and alluding to a number of authors who have shaped English to remarkable aesthetic effect though it was not their first language.
This article analyses linguistically Achebe’s style and rhetoric in Things Fall Apart. In particular, his use of ‘’African English’’, drawing on proverbs, tales, and idioms of the Igbo ...
