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Chinua Achebe From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Albert Chinualumogu Achebe Chinua Achebe speaking at PEN World Voices in 2006 Born November 16 Nneobi, Nigeria Nationality Nigerian Writing period 1958-present Debut works Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe pronounced /ˈtʃɪnwɑː ɑːˈtʃeɪbeɪ/ ), born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on November 16 , is a Nigerian novelist poet and critic . He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely-read book in modern African literature Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo village of Ogidi in south Nigeria , Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and began writing stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos . He gained worldwide attention for Things Fall Apart in the late 1950s; his later novels include No Longer at Ease Arrow of God A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Achebe wrote his novels in

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Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Chinua Achebe (1930-) - in full Albert Chinualumogu Achebe Prominent Igbo (Ibo) writer, famous for his novels describing the effects of Western customs and values on traditional African society. Achebe's satire and his keen ear for spoken language have made him one of the most highly esteemed African writers in English. In 1990 Achebe was paralyzed from the waist down in a serious car accident. "I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past - with all its imperfections - was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God's behalf delivered them" (from Morning Yet on Creation Day Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, the son of a teacher in a missionary school. His parents, though they installed in him many of the values of their traditional Igbo culture, were devout evangelical Protestants and christened him Albert after Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. In 1944 Achebe attended Government College in Umuahia. Like other major Nigerian writers including Wole Soyinka, Elechi Amadi, John Okigbo, John Pepper Clark, and Cole Omotso, he was also educated at the University College of Ibadan, where he studied English, history and theology. At the university Achebe rejected his British name and took his indigenous name Chinua. In 1953 he graduated with a BA. Before joining the Nigerian Broadcasting Company in Lagos in 1954 he travelled in Africa and America, and worked for a short time as a teacher. In the 1960s he was the director of External Services in charge of the Voice of Nigeria.

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My Account Home Free Online Study Guides Best Editing Anywhere Getting you the grade since 1999. Study Guides Editing Services ... Help Search: Biography of Chinua Achebe (1930-) Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe, poet and novelist, is one of the most important living African writers. He is also considered one of the most original literary artists currently writing in English. Born Albert Chinualumogo Achebe, Chinua Achebe was raised by Christian evangelical parents in the large village Ogidi, in Igboland, Eastern Nigeria. He received early education in English, but grew up surrounded by the complex fusion of Igbo traditions and the colonial legacy. He studied literature and medicine at the University of Ibadan; after graduating, he went to work for the Nigerian Broadcasting Company in Lagos. Things Fall Apart (1958) was his first novel. It has been translated into at least forty-five languages, and has sold eight million copies worldwide. Starting in the 1950s, Achebe was central to a new Nigerian literary movement that drew on the oral traditions of Nigeria's indigenous tribes. Although Achebe writes in English, he attempts to incorporate Igbo vocabulary and narratives. Other novels include: No Longer At Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), and A Man of the People (1966). Achebe has been active in Nigerian politics since the 1960s. Many of his novels deal with the social and political problems facing his country, including the difficulty of the post-colonial legacy.

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Main Page Introduction The Course Authors ... Source Chinua Achebe Introduction Biography Publications Reading Room ... Study Guide “The world is big. Some people are unable to comprehend that simple fact. They want the world on their own terms, its peoples just like them and their friends, its places like the manicured little patch on which they live. But this is a foolish and blind wish. Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties. Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not.” -Chinua Achebe Introduction Chinua Achebe is probably the best known of the African writers. He considers himself a political writer, which is accurate, since his writings acutely portray the political and social situation of his country, and deal mostly with how these situations affect individual lives. Biography CHINUA ACHEBE was born in 1930 in the village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria. After studying medicine and literature at the University of Ibadan, he went to work for the Nigerian broadcasting company in Lagos.

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Welcome Study Questions Discussion Groups Library Resources ... Study Questions Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan. His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad. From 1972 to 1976, and again in 1987 to 1988, Mr. Achebe was professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and also for one year at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Cited in the London Sunday Times as one of the "1,000 Makers of the Twentieth Century" for defining a "modern African literature that was truly African" and thereby making "a major contribution to world literature," Chinua Achebe has published novels, short stories, essays and children's books. His volume of poetry, Christmas in Biafra

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African American Studies All titles Upcoming titles Home ... Home Search By Author By Series By Subject By Title ... Your Cart Conversations with Chinua Achebe Edited by Bernth Lindfors 192 pages 0-87805-929-6 Unjacketed cloth $50.00S 087805-999-7 Paper $20.00T Unjacketed cloth, $50.00 Paper, $20.00 "One big message, of the many that I try to put across is that Africa was not a vacuum before the coming of Europe, that culture was not unknown in Africa, that culture was not brought to Africa by the white world." Chinua Achebe's books are being read throughout the English-speaking world. They have been translated into more than fifty languages. His publishers estimate that more than eight million copies of his first novel Things Fall Apart (1958) have been sold. As a consequence, he is the best known and most widely studied African author. His distinguished books of fiction and nonfiction include No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, Morning Yet on Creation Day, Christmas in Biafra, and others. Achebe often has been called the inventor of the African novel. Although he modestly denies the title, it is true that modern African literature would not have flowered so rapidly and spectacularly had he not led the way by telling Africa's story from a distinctively African point of view. Many other Africans have been inspired to write novels by his example. The interviews collected here span more than thirty years of Achebe's writing career. The earliest was recorded in 1962, the latest in 1995. Together they offer a representative sample of what he has said to interviewers for newspapers, journals, and books in many different countries. Through his own statements we can see Achebe as a man of letters, a man of ideas, a man of words.

17. Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (1930) is one of 52 authors who appear on our Notable Writers of Color poster, on display in the English Department Advising Office. http://depts.washington.edu/engl/advising/diversity/authors.php?id=1

18. Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe. AKA Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. Born 16Nov-1930 Birthplace Ogidi, Nigeria. Gender Male Race or Ethnicity Black http://www.nndb.com/people/088/000114743/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Chinua Achebe AKA Albert Chinualumogu Achebe Born: 16-Nov Birthplace: Ogidi, Nigeria Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: Nigeria Executive summary: Things Fall Apart This minimal entry in NNDB is a "stub" and will be expanded into a complete entry at a later date. It is present because a standard reference work or works included this individual. Father: Isaiah O. Achebe (d.) Mother: Janet N. Achebe Wife: Christie C. Okoli (m. 961, two sons, two daughters) High School: Government College, Umuahia University: University College Ibadan Professor: English, University of Massachusetts (1972-75) Professor: University of Connecticut (1975-76) Professor: University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1976-81) American Academy of Arts and Letters Modern Language Association Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels Appendectomy Risk Factors: Appendicitis Author of books: Things Fall Apart , novel) No Longer at Ease , novel) Arrow of God , novel) Man of the People , novel) Beware, Soul Brother

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Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart Study Guide Using this Guide List of other study guides More information about Chinua Achebe More information on Achebe Read the following poem, which is the source of the title of Achebe's novel: William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming" (1921) Yeats was attracted to the spiritual and occult world and fashioned for himself an elaborate mythology to explain human experience. "The Second Coming," written after the catastrophe of World War I and with communism and fascism rising, is a compelling glimpse of an inhuman world about to be born. Yeats believed that history in part moved in two thousand-year cycles. The Christian era, which followed that of the ancient world, was about to give way to an ominous period represented by the rough, pitiless beast in the poem. Turning and turning in the widening gyre (1) The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;

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