Blog Posts - Chinua Achebe

Dear Matilda, It’s your dad here. The one without the milk. Please excuse this decidedly old fashioned way of communicating. Letters are rather passe even now. No doubt by the time you’re old enough to read this you’ll probably be … Conti...

Derek Walcott’s Poetry- Critical Appreciation Caribbean Literature covers issues like racism, colonization and dislocation. The immigrants who went to Caribbean Islands and the authors who went abroad to study felt […] The post Derek Walc...

Chinua AchebeChinua AchebeAlbert Chinualumogu Achebe, ou Chinua Achebe,  é um dos escritores africanos mais famosos da atualidade. Chinua Achebe nascido em Ogidi, leste da Nigéria, Colônia britânica. Seu pai, Isaías Okafor Achebe, foi criad...

Chinua AchebeChinua AchebeAlbert Chinualumogu Achebe, ou Chinua Achebe,  é um dos escritores africanos mais famosos da atualidade. Chinua Achebe nascido em Ogidi, leste da Nigéria, Colônia britânica. Seu pai, Isaías Okafor Achebe, foi criad...

As usual , the Gattakippushin music CEO isn't letting today, February 16, pass by without marking it in a memorable way.

As usual , the Gattakippushin music CEO isn't letting today, February 16, pass by without marking it in a memorable way.

Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State (left) and Aviation Minister, Mrs. Stella Oduah From Left: Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State and Senator Stella Emordi President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria (left...

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has described Africa’s most well known novelist, Chinua Achebe, as a storyteller who earned global celebration, adding, however, that those describing Achebe as “the father of African literature” were ignorant. In a...

Abuja, May 15, 2013 (NAN) The Senate on Wednesday in Abuja told the Federal Federal government to immortalise Prof. Chinua Achebe by calling a significant motorway or street in Abuja and a nationwide monument after the man. The Senate likewise contac...

Death is a price any man born of a woman must pay. It is inevitable and most times comes unexpectedly. Dust, man must return, according to Genesis 3:19 and eternal life comes next. Is it eternal damnation or eternal glorification? It is your choice (...

Over the course of his 82 years Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe attracted many titles. To some he was the Father of African Literature. To others he was the Great Slayer of Colonial Fiction. To me, well, he simply changed my world. My encounter with...

I never thought I would call African Literature “my jam!” but I had an outstanding teacher. As a young boy, he was smuggled out of Nigeria because he was a royal. Chinua Achebe later became his mentor, and as students, we were able learn a differ...

The home state of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the “father of modern African literature” who died this week in the United States, wants him to be buried in his native community, an official said Saturday. The family of We join the world in mo...

WASHINGTON, March 24, 2013 — Nigerian novelist, poet, essayist, and teacher Chinua Achebe died Friday in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 82 after a short illness. Awarded the Man Booker prize for lifetime work, the author of the path breaking 1...

Ifeanyi_Urigwe March 22, 2013 19:49 Achebe, the man whose works thought us all how to read and write. You explained my Igbo culture and landscape like no other. The inspiration I drew from you and other great writers from our continent inspired my wo...

Chinua Achebe, who died in Boston today at the age of eighty-two, was a few weeks shy of thirty years old when Nigeria was granted independence from the British Empire, on October 1, 1960, and he was already acclaimed, worldwide, as the preëminent C...

Suffice it to say then that Chinua Achebe has been around all my life – from the Heinemann Series poster of a smiling, serious, bemused, pipe smoking Achebe that was framed in our family sitting room, to cases of mistaken Award-winning author Chinu...

Chinua Achebe (Mike Cohea/Brown University/AP). The Classic. Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer and statesman who changed African literature forever, has died at the age of 82. You know him as the writer of Things Fall Apart, his debut novel of 1958,...

(CNN) — Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, a literary icon whose 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart" captured the world's attention, has died, his publisher said. He was 82. An author of more than 20 books, he was celebrated worldwide for te...

It was 1988 at the University of Nairobi, and Chinua Achebe was only three feet away from me when my cheeks prickled and blushed a deep red. I had read his work already, but his presence and his voice seemed to admonish me, personally, to "cultiv...

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