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  1. African Short Stories
  2. Things Fall Apart: And Related Readings (Literature Connections) by Chinua Achebe, 1996-01
  3. Chinua Achebe 's Things Fall Apart: Notes (Cliffs Notes) by John Chua, 1996-07
  4. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1994
  5. Beware soul-brother, and other poems by Chinua Achebe, 1971
  6. The Drum by Chinua Achebe, 1977-04
  7. No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe (the author of Things Fall Apart) by Chinua Achebe, 2009-07-21
  8. Chinua Achebe (Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature) by Catherine Lynnette Innes, 1992-03-27
  9. The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia by M. Keith Booker, 2003-12-30
  10. No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe, 1963
  11. Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works (dust jacket) by Rose Ure Mezu, 2006-06-15
  12. An Introduction to the African Novel: A Critical Study of Twelve Books by Chinua Achebe, James Ngugi, Camara Laye, Elechi Amadi, Ayi Kwei Armah, Mongo Beti and Gabriel Okara (An H.E.B. paperback) by Eustace Palmer, 1972-02-28
  13. The African Trilogy (Picador Books) by Chinua Achebe, 1988-10-07
  14. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

21. African Authors: Chinua Achebe - Table Of Contents
African Authors chinua achebe featured in WEB FEET Monthly Subject Guide to the Best Web Sites, July 2001 http//www.webfeetguides.com
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African Authors: Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
Things Fall Apart (pub. 1958) COCC Home Cora Agatucci Home Classes HUM 211 Home ... Things Fall Apart
Nigeria West Africa Ethnic Group: Igbo or Ibo "...only the story...can continue beyond the war and the warrior.
It is the story that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters.
It is the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars
into the spikes of the cactus fence.
The story is our escort; without it, we are blind.
Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story;
rather it is the story that owns us and directs us.
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22. Chinua Achebe
LONDON Nigerian novelist chinua achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth,
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LONDON - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe won the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for fiction Wednesday, beating such celebrated nominees as Philip Roth, Margaret Atwood and Ian McEwan. The $120,000 prize is awarded every two years for a body of fiction. (AP, Wed Jun 13, 2007)
Chinua Achebe
T he novelist Chinua Achebe , a fine stylish and an astute social critic, is one of the best-known African writers in the West and his novels are often assigned in university courses. Nigerian novelist and poet, whose works explore the impact of European culture on African society. Achebe's unsentimental, often ironic books vividly convey the traditions and speech of the Ibo people. Born in Ogidi, Nigeria, Achebe was educated at the University College of Ibadan (now the University of Ibadan). He subsequently taught at various universities in Nigeria and the United States. Achebe wrote his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), partly in response to what he saw as inaccurate characterizations of Africa and Africans by British authors. The book describes the effects on Ibo society of the arrival of European colonizers and missionaries in the late 1800s.

23. Chinua Achebe
www.stg.brown.edu/projects/ hypertext/landow/post/achebe/achebeov.html Similar pages BBC - BBC Four Profile - chinua achebeProfile of Nigerian Novelist and poet chinua achebe.
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24. EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
chinua achebe s Things Fall Apart Teaching Through the Novel chinua achebe is one of Africa s most wellknown and influential contemporary writers.
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25. Internet Resources: Chinua Achebe & Things Fall Apart
Listen to chinua achebe on the Diane Rehm Show (WAMUFM) on 22 June 2000, discussing African literature and how it s been influenced by Western culture.
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Born in eastern Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe published Things Fall Apart in 1958.

26. Achebe @Web English Teacher
chinua achebe Lesson plans for Things Fall Apart and other works chinua achebe s Things Fall Apart Reading and Study Questions
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Lesson plans for Things Fall Apart and other works
Biography and Background Things Fall Apart Other Works
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Online literary criticism from the Internet Public Library.
Things Fall Apart
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A thorough unit plan, featuring activities, quizzes, tests, and more. Also includes the complete eNotes to the novel. Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
Excellent chapter-by-chapter study questions. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Reading and Study Questions
Questions for discussion and writing, divided by section, designed for advanced or college-level students. This page includes a copy of Yeats's "The Second Coming," the source of the title. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart : Oral and Literary Strategies
The three lessons at this site explore the historical context of the novel, the literary context in contrast to other writers, and linguistic and literary strategies used.

27. IPL Online Literary Criticism Collection
There are no other sites about chinua achebe in the collection; do you know of any that you Use these links to search for chinua achebe outside the IPL.
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28. USAfricaonline.com | Chido |African Literature
Why chinua achebe, the Eagle on the Iroko, is Africa s writer of the century chinua achebe, Africa s most acclaimed and fluent writer of the English
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USAfrica to celebrate 50 years of 'THINGS FALL APART' with international tribute to Chinua Achebe
at 15th Anniversary of USAfrica in Houston weekend of August 8 n 9, 2008
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(First written on March 1, 2002, for USAfrica, updated for Prof. Achebe's 74th Birthday tribute on November 16, 2004, and published in CLASS magazine same month) Africa's most acclaimed and fluent writer of the English Language, the most translated writer of Black heritage in the world, broadcaster extraordinaire, social conscience of millions, cultural custodian and elevator, chronicler and essayist, goodwill ambassador and man of progressive rock-ribbed principles, the

29. Man Booker International Judges Honour Chinua Achebe | News | Guardian Unlimited
The £60000 Man Booker International prize goes today to the Nigerian author chinua achebe in a decision which confers equal lustre on giver and receiver.
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30. Interview - 2000.08.02
An Atlantic Unbound interview with chinua achebe. chinua achebe, the author of one of the enduring works of modern African literature, sees postcolonial
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-08-02.htm
Recent Atlantic Unbound interviews:
In the Name of the Homeland
(July 19, 2000)

Julia Alvarez, the Dominican-born novelist and poet, talks about her new historical novel, and about her need to write the stories that are hardest to tell.
Two Geeks on Their Way to Byzantium
(June 28, 2000)
Richard Powers a writer who connects technology, art, and politics as few others can talks about his new novel, Plowing the Dark, and the age-old human search for the virtual and the eternal.
A Kinder, Gentler Overclass
(June 15, 2000)
David Brooks, the author of Bobos in Paradise, explains why bourgeois bohemians are here to stay.
American Literature
(June 1, 2000)
Sherman Alexie poet, novelist, short-story writer, Native American strikes out at the "eagle-feathers school of Native literature."
A Satirist in Full Stride
(May 17, 2000)
George Saunders, whose new collection of short stories has just been published, may be the most talented goof-off writing fiction today. Towards a New Urbanism (April 26, 2000) Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck, the authors of Suburban Nation

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32. Achebe: An Image Of Africa: Racism In Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness"
chinua.achebe, An Image of Africa Racism in Conrad s Heart of Darkness. To Westerners, achebe is perhaps the best known (or at least most frequently
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Chinua.Achebe, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
This essay was published in the Massachusetts Review 18 (1977) and was reprinted in Heart of Darkness, An Authoritative Text, Background and Sources, Criticism . 3rd ed. Ed. Robert Kimbrough, London: W. W Norton and Co., 1988, pp. 251-261. To Westerners, Achebe is perhaps the best known (or at least most frequently studied) African novelist. Ahelpful 'beginning' web site that gives biographical and bibliographical information is: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/achebe.htm ; a more comprehensive website is: http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/achebe/achebeov.html
  • I propose to draw from these rather trivial encounters rather heavy conclusions which at first sight might seem somewhat out of proportion to them. But only, I hope, at first sight.
  • The young fellow from Yonkers, perhaps partly on account of his age but I believe also for much deeper and more serious reasons, is obviously unaware that the life of his own tribesmen in Yonkers, New York, is full of odd customs and superstitions and, like everybody else in his culture, imagines that he needs a trip to Africa to encounter those things.
  • The other person being fully my own age could not be excused on the grounds of his years. Ignorance might be a more likely reason; but here again I believe that something more willful than a mere lack of information was at work. For did not that erudite British historian and Regius Professor at Oxford, Hugh Trevor Roper, also pronounce that African history did not exist?
  • 33. World Literature Author Research Project -- Achebe
    The above quotation is quoted by Nwabu Nnebe from an uncited work by chinua achebe. To find more proverbs by achebe, as well as this one go to
    http://collaboratory.nunet.net/goals2000/eddy/Achebe/Author.html
    Chinua Achebe Student Index Author Resources Influences
      "Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world."
        Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart.
        For more creative quotations see:
        http://www.bemorecreative.com/one/890.htm
        "In all great componds there must be people of all minds - some good, some bad, some fearless and some cowardly; those who bring in wealth and those who scatter it, those who give good advice and those who only speak the words of palm wine. That is why we say that whatever tune you play in the compond of a great man there is always someone to dance to it." The above quotation is quoted by Nwabu Nnebe from an uncited work by Chinua Achebe. To find more proverbs by Achebe, as well as this one go to:
        http://www.lioness.cm.utexas.edu/Igbo.dir/proverb.htm

        Chinua Achebe Cheat Sheet (a brief biographical sketch) Chinua Achebe was born November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria to the name Albert Chinualumoga Achebe. He is the son of Isaiah and Janet Achebe and was married to Christie Chinwe Okoli in 1961. Together, his wife Christie and he have four children: Chinelo (daughter), Ikechukwu (son) Chidi (son), and Nwando (daughter). He is considered by many critics to be one of the best contemporary African authors and has written several works since the late 1950’s. Chinua Achebe’s writings include:
        • Things Fall Apart (novel) 1959 No Longer At Ease (novel) 1960

    34. Bold Type: Poem And Photos By Chinua Achebe And Robert Lyons
    In Another Africa, photographer Robert Lyons and author chinua achebe have joined to explore the real Africa, behind Western stereotypes.
    http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1298/achebe/scrapbook.html
    Knowing robs us of wonder.
    Had it not ripped apart
    the fearful robes of primordial Night
    to steal the force that crafted horns
    on doghead and sowed insurrection
    overnight in the homely beak
    of a hen; had reason not given us
    assurance that day will daily break
    and the sun's array return to disarm
    night's fantastic figurations
    each daybreak would be garlanded at the city gate and escorted with royal drums to a stupendous festival of an amazed world. One day after the passage of a dark April storm ecstatic birds followed its furrows sowing songs of daybreak though the time was now past noon, their sparkling notes sprouting green incantations everywhere to free the world from harmattan death. But for me the celebration is make-believe; the clamorous change of season will darken the hills of Nsukka for an hour or two when it comes; no hurricane will hit my sky and no song of deliverance. Use of this excerpt from Another Africa

    35. Literary Kicks : Chinua Achebe: My Spirit Come Fight For Me
    Christened Albert achebe in homage to Prince Albert, husband of Great Britain s Queen Victoria, chinua achebe was born in Ogidi, located in Eastern Nigeria,
    http://www.litkicks.com/ChinuaAchebe/
    Literary Kicks Opinions , Observations and Research
    We're incredibly proud of this book, the first anthology of LitKicks writings including selections from our poetry and fiction boards. The book was listed as a top poetry pick for 2004 by about.com. Bob Holman states that LitKicks has "found a new way to make an anthology open, free, and eternally interesting."
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    Christened Albert Achebe in homage to Prince Albert, husband of Great Britain's Queen Victoria, Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, located in Eastern Nigeria, on November 16, 1930. Igbo, formerly called Ibo, is the language of Ogidi and serves as the cultural identifier to Igbo speakers. Achebe has become one of the most well-known contemporary authors from the African continent. His first novel placed Achebe in the literary spotlight immediately following its release. The novel was a departure from colonialist views of African lifestyles and customs. Over the years Achebe has been characterized as the father of the African novel. Achebe's early work changed the standard, accepted depiction of African people as random savages. Although Albert Camus and Doris Lessing's work also endeavored to expose the value of African culture and experience, Achebe believed his work and literary crusade offered a view "from the inside."

    36. Chinua Achebe - Lesson Plans & Study Guides For Novels, Including Things Fall Ap
    Understanding Things Fall Apart A Student Casebook to Issues Sources and Historical Documents Literature in Context Series (1999) (by chinua achebe)
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  • 37. Chinua Achebe An Interview
    Many readers, myself quite obviously included, are committed to chinua achebe s vision and work. But it is clear to me that many more people would be well
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    CONJUNCTIONS:17 Fall 1991 Chinua Achebe, An Interview
    Bradford Morrow
    CHINUA ACHEBE AND I MET for the first time on Martin Luther King Day, this year. It was snowing hard and the trip from New York up the Saw Mill River and the Taconic was daunting. When I pulled into the little frozen-mud drive that led to his house near Annandale-on-Hudson, and was asked in, I felt an immediate sense of warmth warmth both physical and of spirit. I'd heard this about Chinua and his family. I had heard that he was not just a man of immense literary greatness, but that he embodied a profoundly decent humanity.
    Since that snowy day I have had the good fortune of passing many hours with him up at Bard College, where we both teach. I've since read and reread all his books, and count him without hesitation as one of my favorite writers. I think it is a shame that he a hero in his native Nigeria, well-known throughout the rest of Africa, and in Europe remains less appreciated in America. Many readers, myself quite obviously included, are committed to Chinua Achebe's vision and work. But it is clear to me that many more people would be well advised to examine the implications of his novels, his essays, his stories and poems especially in this country, which is altogether too insulated from world-writers, as we might call them, writers who reach out beyond the imaginable and attempt to address life at its widest possible cast. From the publication of his first novel, Things Fall Apart

    38. Things Fall Apart
    chinua achebe was born in Nigeria on November 16, 1930, the fifth of six The Earth Times/POPULATION chinua achebe Named Goodwill Ambassador by the UN
    http://www.stfrancis.edu/en/student/achebe/chinua/chinua.htm
    Who is Chinua Achebe? Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria on November 16, 1930, the fifth of six children of Isaiah and Janet Achebe. His father was a teacher with the Church Missionary Society. When Achebe was five, his father retired, and the family moved to their ancestral village of Ogidi - into a house of earthen walls with a sheet-metal roof. When Achebe was twelve, he left home with an older brother, who taught at a school in Nekede. He eventually earned a scholarship to Government College, a secondary school. He became something of a hero in his village, acquiring the nickname "dictionary" for his knowledge of English. After a short time as a teacher, Achebe became a producer for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Lagos in 1954. Things Fall Apart was Achebe's first novel in 1958. For his contribution to African Literature, Achebe was awarded the Margaret Wong Memorial Prize in 1959, the first of many literary awards. In 1961, Achebe became the first director of external broadcasting in Nigeria for the British Broadcasting Corporation. That same year he married Christiana Chinwe Okoli. They had two daughters and two sons. Achebe went on to write a number of other novels and short stories. His richly African stories re-create the old ways of Nigeria's Igbo people and recall the intrusion of western customs upon their traditional values. During the countrywide persecution of the Igbo in 1966, Achebe was forced to leave Lagos for eastern Nigeria. He took an active part in the struggle for independence.

    39. Achebe, Chinua. Papers: Guide.
    Purchased from chinua achebe through George Robert Minkoff with funds from the Amy Lowell fund and from the AfroAmerican Studies Department.
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    Achebe, Chinua. Papers: Guide.
    Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
    Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
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    Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University
    Location: b
    Call No.: MS Eng 1406
    Creator: Achebe, Chinua.
    Title: Papers,
    Date(s): ca. 1963-1993.
    Quantity: 2 cartons (ca. 2 linear ft.)
    Abstract: Manuscripts of Achebe's main publications from Arrow of God (1964) to Anthills of the Savannah (1987), and of a few later occasional writings down to 1993; with some publishers' correspondence.
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    Purchased from Chinua Achebe through George Robert Minkoff with funds from the Amy Lowell fund and from the Afro-American Studies Department. Received 1996 May 15.
    Historical Note
    Chinua Achebe (1930- ) is a Nigerian writer and scholar. He became well known after his first novel Things fall apart (1958), which depicted the encounter of the Igbo people of Nigeria with the British colonial power. His subsequent novels and short stories are likewise set in West Africa. Achebe's poetry was written out of the experience of the Biafran war of 1966-1970. He became Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1970, and Emeritus Professor of English in 1985. After holding several visiting appointments in Britain and the United States, in 1991 he became Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College in New York.

    40. Chinua Achebe And Language
    All quotations from the fiction are taken from the 1988 Picador edition of chinua achebe’s The African Trilogy. A powerful instrument of control used by the
    http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/nigeria/language.htm
    Chinua Achebe and the Language of the Colonizer
    This page last revised 19 May 1998 The African Trilogy A powerful instrument of control used by the colonizing powers is the instrument of language. Language forms a huge part of the culture of a people - it is through their language that they express their folk tales, myths, proverbs, history. For this reason, the imperial powers invariably attempted to stamp out native languages and replace them with their own. As Ashcroft, Griffiths and Tiffin point out, there are two possible responses to this control - rejection or subversion. ( The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, The African Trilogy Any reader of The African Trilogy comes away with at least a limited knowledge of Igbo words and phrases. Some words such as obi, chi, osu, and egwugwu become assimilated very quickly into this knowledge through the way in which Achebe scatters them casually through the text. Others, which occur less frequently, require translation or a few words of explanation, such as ilo (the village playground), or

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