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    Chinua Achebe (/ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/ ; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe;16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is...
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  • Things Fall Apart (category Novels by Chinua Achebe)
    Things Fall Apart is the debut novel of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe first published in 1958. It depicts the events of pre-colonial life in Igboland...
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  • A Man of the People (category Novels by Chinua Achebe)
    A Man of the People is a novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Written as a satirical piece, "A Man of the People" follows the story told by Odili,...
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  • Arrow of God (category Novels by Chinua Achebe)
    Arrow of God, published in 1964, is the third novel by Chinua Achebe. Along with Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease, it is considered part of The...
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  • No Longer at Ease (category Novels by Chinua Achebe)
    No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by a Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe. It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education...
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  • Anthills of the Savannah (category Novels by Chinua Achebe)
    novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. It was his fifth novel, first published in the United Kingdom 21 years after Achebe's previous one (A Man of the...
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    essays and collections, memoirs, and children's books. Adichie has cited Chinua Achebe—in whose house she lived while at the University of Nigeria—Buchi Emecheta...
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    An Image of Africa (category Books by Chinua Achebe)
    the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in February 1975. The essay...
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  • Civil Peace (category Short stories by Chinua Achebe)
    Civil Peace is a 1971 short story by Chinua Achebe. It is about the effects of the Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) on the people and the "civil peace"...
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    by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. In his 1975 public lecture "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness", Achebe described Conrad's novella...
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  • Dead Men's Path (category Short stories by Chinua Achebe)
    Dead Men's Path is a short story by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, first published in 1953. The short-story has been noted as an example of cultural...
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  • Chike and the River (category Novels by Chinua Achebe)
    Chike and the River is a children's story by Chinua Achebe. It was first published in South Africa in the year 1966 by Cambridge University Press, with...
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  • Gender Nwando Achebe was born in Enugu, eastern Nigeria to Nigerian writer, essayist, and poet, Chinua Achebe, and Christie Chinwe Achebe, a professor...
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    Enugu in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe is the third child of Chinua Achebe and Professor Christie Chinwe Okoli-Achebe. His father is regarded as the "father...
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  • There Was a Country (category Books by Chinua Achebe)
    Personal History of Biafra is a personal account by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe of the Nigerian Civil War, also known as the Biafran War. It is considered...
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  • delivered to the airport. On October 1, 2023, the airport was renamed after Chinua Achebe, a literary icon who was a notable author, poet and critic from Anambra...
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  • receive significant worldwide critical acclaim was Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, published in 1958. African literature in the late colonial period increasingly...
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    Image of Africa" about Heart of Darkness Nigerian novelist and theorist Chinua Achebe notes how the jungle and Africa become the source of temptation for...
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    Nigerian author Chinua Achebe was awarded the International Prize for his literary career in 2007. Judge Nadine Gordimer said Achebe was "the father of...
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  • player Chinua Achebe (1930–2013), Nigerian novelist, poet and critic Nancy Achebe, Nigerian librarian and information scientist Nwando Achebe (born 1970)...
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    historically fragmented and decentralised; in the opinion of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, Igbo identity should be placed somewhere between a "tribe" and a "nation"...
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  • "The Headstrong Historian" read the short story as a revisioning of Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel Things Fall Apart, offering a feminist perspective on the...
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    insinuate messages about Nigeria's inherent bloodthirstiness. Novelist Chinua Achebe became a committed propagandist for Biafra, and one of its leading international...
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  • "Chinua Achebe forces 50 Cent to rename movie". The Guardian. Retrieved August 4, 2013. "50 Cent Loses Battle With Nigerian Novelist Chinua Achebe Over...
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    is famous for its English language literature. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, is an important book in African literature. With over eight million...
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    Girls at War (category Short stories by Chinua Achebe)
    "Girls at War" is a 1972 short story by Chinua Achebe. The narrative that focus on the essence of survival amidst the uncertainties of war. Through the...
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  • by Chinua Achebe - Summaries and Commentaries". Archived from the original on 2008-05-02. Retrieved 2008-08-18. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe v t...
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  • parents’ work, Thomas grew up reading and discussing essential works by Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka and listening to Fela Kuti, influencing her political...
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    "Chinua Achebe's social allegory of Nigeria". The Guardian Nigeria News – Nigeria and World News. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 30 June 2021. "Achebe's Things...
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  • Chinua Achebe Literary Festival is an annual literary event held in honour of Nigerian writer and literary critic — Chinua Achebe, the author of Things...
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