Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and is a graduate of University College, Ibadan. His early career in radio ended ... [... more]
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Home and Exile
From Amazon.com: Based on three lectures distinguished Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe gave at Harvard University in 1998, this short but trenchant work does not pretend to be a full-fledged autobiography. Instead, Achebe makes forceful use of his [... more]
CDN$16.02
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Things Fall Apart (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
From Amazon.com: One of the most widely read novels from Nigeria's most famous novelist. Things Fall Apart is a gripping study of the problem of European colonialism in Africa. The story relates the cultural collision that occurs when Christian English [... more]
CDN$7.95
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Arrow of God
The Arrow struck true.: Being Igbo, and having read almost all that Chinua Achebe has written, I can say that this is one of the best literary works I have ever come across. I read Arrow of God for the firs time when I was about fourteen and even at that [... more]
CDN$18.54
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Things Fall Apart
From Amazon.com: One of the most widely read novels from Nigeria's most famous novelist. Things Fall Apart is a gripping study of the problem of European colonialism in Africa. The story relates the cultural collision that occurs when Christian English [... more]
CDN$14.53
Amazon CA |
Things Fall Apart
From Amazon.com: One of the most widely read novels from Nigeria's most famous novelist. Things Fall Apart is a gripping study of the problem of European colonialism in Africa. The story relates the cultural collision that occurs when Christian English [... more]
CDN$16.04
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Things Fall Apart
From Amazon.com: One of the most widely read novels from Nigeria's most famous novelist. Things Fall Apart is a gripping study of the problem of European colonialism in Africa. The story relates the cultural collision that occurs when Christian English [... more]
CDN$25.00
Amazon CA |
No Longer at Ease
where's his Nobel Prize?: Obi Okonkwo, grandson of the protagonist in Things Fall Apart, is the pride of his Nigerian village, Umuofia. The Ibo villagers pooled their money to send one native son off to England to be educated and Obi was chosen. Now he [... more]
CDN$16.24
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Girls at War
Great stories by a master writer: This is an impressive collection of short stories that covers a twenty-year period of Achebe's writing. They also cover a period of history in his native Nigeria that spans from the late colonial period to the Biafran [... more]
CDN$13.13
Amazon CA |
Things Fall Apart
From Amazon.com: One of the most widely read novels from Nigeria's most famous novelist. Things Fall Apart is a gripping study of the problem of European colonialism in Africa. The story relates the cultural collision that occurs when Christian English [... more]
CDN$20.03
Amazon CA |
Home and Exile
From Amazon.com: Based on three lectures distinguished Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe gave at Harvard University in 1998, this short but trenchant work does not pretend to be a full-fledged autobiography. Instead, Achebe makes forceful use of his [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
The Trouble with Nigeria
an important diatribe: This is a good little book about Nigeria's problems written by a Nigerian for Nigerians. The edition I read was one of the smallest books I've ever seen - even smaller than some of those Noam Chomsky Real Story tracts - which makes [... more]
CDN$8.53
Amazon CA |