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6 days ago · The choices made in the digital space echo the well-known debate between Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: the Africanization of the former colonial languages versus writing in African languages.
2 days ago · Chinua Achebe – “Things Fall Apart” (ch.14) Okonkwo is well-received in his mother’s village by his youngest and last-surviving uncle, given a plot of land to build his compound on, some farm land and seed yams to plant after the next rain season. The rain season starts with a thunderstorm with hail, which the Igbo call “the nuts of ...
Jul 13, 2024 · A daughter of Chinua Achebe, the late renowned novelist, Maureen Achebehas received the Brigham and Women’s Hospital 2024 Faculty Development and Diversity Awards. Her brother and chairman of the African Integrated Development Enterprise Public Benefit Corporation, Chidi Achebe, made this known in a LinkedIn post on July 2.
3 days ago · Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ( / ˌtʃɪməˈmɑːndə əŋˈɡoʊzi əˈdiːtʃi.eɪ / ⓘ [a]; born 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian writer and public speaker who is regarded as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature. She is the author of the award-winning novels Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) and ...
Jul 13, 2024 · Chinua Achebe’s theory-fostering essay “The Truth of Fiction” was delivered at Ife during the period. Ultra-Marxist exponent, Geoffrey Hunt (British) was hunting from the frontiers of ...
Jul 13, 2024 · Responding to the prize at a programme organised in December 1986, by the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) to celebrate Soyinka, Chinua Achebe declared: “One of us has proved that we can...
Jul 13, 2024 · This essay delves into Achebe's explora6on of postcolonial perspec6ves in "Things Fall Apart," analyzing how he cri6ques colonialism, portrays Igbo culture, and examines the clash between tradi6on and modernity. **Chinua Achebe: The Voice of African Literature** Born in 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria, Chinua Achebe emerged as a leading figure in ...
Jul 13, 2024 · A line of thought recently surfaced online that African writers like Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong’O and others boycotted the Nobel Prize when Wole Soyinka won it in 1986.
4 days ago · How does pantheology, which often deals with origins, blend with and tie into futurisms, as part of the same, as when Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and Arthur C. Clark posit magic, alternative history and science to coalesce into cosmology? Proposals are welcome on any topics related to the study of the broadly-understood fantastic ...
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6 days ago · Although not exhaustive, this list puts together some of Africa’s best selling books of the past century. 1. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe – Nigeria. Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic is best known for his seminal work, “Things Fall Apart” (1958). This novel is lauded as the most widely read book in modern African ...
