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The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe

The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe

Ogbaa, Kalu

Hardcover

Series: Global Africa

Literary FiguresFiction AnthologiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032026022
ISBN13: 9781032026022
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 1 2021
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad.

The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things Fall Apart opened the eyes of the world to a more realistic image of Africa that was warped by generations of European travelers, colonists, and writers. Whilst continuing to write further influential novels and essays, Achebe also taught other African writers to use their skills to help their national leaders to fight for their freedoms in the post-colonial era, as internal warfare compounded the damage caused by European powers during the colonial era. In this book Kalu Ogbaa, an esteemed expert on Achebe and his works, draws on extensive research and personal interviews with the great man and his colleagues and friends, to tell the story of Achebe and his work.

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