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Followed by. Arrow of God. 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 in Britain and then a job in the Nigerian colonial civil service, but is conflicted between his African culture and Western lifestyle and ends up taking a bribe.
Simon Gikandi A prevalent theme in Achebe's novels is the intersection of African tradition (particularly Igbo varieties) and modernity, especially as embodied by European colonialism. For example, the village of Umuofia in Things Fall Apart is violently shaken with internal divisions when the white Christian missionaries arrive. Nigerian English professor Ernest N. Emenyonu describes the ...
A leading novelist at the time, Chinua Achebe was a pioneer in post-war Igbo literary activities. Achebe maintained [ 3 ] It is clear to me that an African creative writer who tries to avoid the big social and political issues of contemporary Africa will end up being completely irrelevant --- like the absurd man in the proverb who leaves his ...
Things Fall Apart is the debut novel of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. [ 1 ] The novel depicts the events of pre-colonial life in Igboland, a cultural area in modern-day southeastern Nigeria, and the subsequent appearance of European missionaries and colonial forces in the late 19th century.
The Chinua Achebe Poetry/Essay Anthology is an annual international anthology of poems and essays established in memory of Prof. Chinua Achebe, a renowned Nigerian author. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Chinua Achebe in 1966. " An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness " is the published and amended version of the second Chancellor's Lecture given by Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in February 1975. The essay was included in his 1988 collection, Hopes and Impediments.