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Nwando Achebe // ⓘ (born 7 March 1970), is a Nigerian-American academic, academic administrator, feminist scholar and multi-award-winning historian. [1] She is the Jack and Margaret Sweet Endowed Professor of History [2] and the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the College of Social Science [3] at Michigan State University.
Achebe, Nwando (2011). The Female King of Colonial Nigeria: Ahebi Ugbabe. Indiana University Press. ISBN 0-253-22248-6. Adeyokunnu, Tomilayo O.; Women, African Training and Research Centre for (1981). Women and agriculture in Nigeria. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Afolabi, Abiola Akiyode (2003).
Charles Johnson, writing for The Washington Post, praised the book but faulted Achebe for failing to fully flesh out his characters. [3] Nadine Gordimer praised the book's "interesting" humour, particularly when contrasted against its depictions of horrors. [4] Ben Okri described it in The Observer as Achebe's "most complex and his wisest book ...
No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Chinua Achebe.It is the story of an Igbo man, Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for an education in Britain and then a job in the Colonial Nigeria civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe.
Achebe presents some standard for the Igbo culture while not idealizing the past, like the troubling culture for modern democrats is the law that says Ikemefuna should be killed for the sins of his clans. [14] Although Achebe shows the treachery, ignorance, and intolerance of the British, he doesn't present them as evil people.
Chinua Achebe, award-winning novelist, professor, literary scholar, and author of Things Fall Apart; Nwando Achebe, historian, feminist scholar, and daughter of Chinua Achebe; Farooq Kperogi, journalist and professor of journalism at Kennesaw State University
King Ahebi Ugbabe (died 1948) was king and warrant chief of Enugu-Ezike, Nigeria.She was the only female king in colonial Nigeria. [1]: 2 Her life's impact is described by Nwando Achebe: "She was a 'slave' married to a deity, a runaway, a pastor, a headman, a warrant chief, and ultimately a female king.
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, a young and educated narrator, about his conflict with Chief Nanga, his former teacher who enters a career in politics in an unnamed fictional 20th-century African country.