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The Trouble with Nigeria (African Writers Series)
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]
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Things Fall Apart
Amazon.com Review: One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two [... more]
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Home and Exile (The W.E.B. Du Bois Institute Series)
Amazon.com Review: 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]
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Anthills of the Savannah
Political life in a modern African country: The story in this book is set in the fictional modern-day African country of Kanga. The action revolves around three central characters. Chris holds the position of "Commissar of Information" in the [... more]
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Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
Achebe is a master of thought: I read this as part of my required summer reading for my AP English class, and I have only previously encountered Achebe's work in Things Fall Apart. This collection of essays is often thought-provoking, quite debatable, [... more]
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Things Fall Apart: A Novel
Amazon.com Review: One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two [... more]
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Arrow of God
Achebe's Arrow: Like Chinua Achebe's first novel (Things Fall Apart), Arrow of God takes us back to the traditional village culture of the Igbo nation in Western Nigeria, tracing its destruction under British colonial rule. Once again, too, the story [... more]
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A Man of the People
Perhaps Achebe's Best: I loved "Things Fall Apart", and it was what got me to fall in love with African literature in the first place-and download a list of Africa's 100 greatest works of literature in order to try to feed my passion! (I'm not [... more]
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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]
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No Longer at Ease
No Longer At Ease: After writing "Things Fall Apart", Achebe again comes to us with a masterpiece sequel tiled "No Longer At Ease". This book depicts Obi Okonkwo, the grandson of the Okonkwo in the former. He is an honorable character [... more]
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African Short Stories (AWS African Writers Series)
A Worthy Introduction to African Literature: This is a great collection of stories. Too often the artistic talent in Africa is overloooked because of the turmoil in some parts of the land. This book is for anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the [... more]
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The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories ...
Author: C. L. Innes Author: Chinua Achebe Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 823 EAN: 9780435905668 ISBN: 043590566X Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: 1992-05-01 [... more]
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