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	Chinua Achebe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chinua Achebe (born November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian writer.
		Achebe posits that Joseph Conrad's famous novel of imperialism harbors subtexts and language of a racist tone that dismiss and dehumanize his African backdrop and characters.
		Achebe is an Honorary Fellow of the Modem Language Association of America (1975); a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature of London (1981); and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1982).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chinua_Achebe (925 words)

	Chinua Achebe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chinua Achebe was born in Eastern Nigeria on November 16, 1930, to Isaiah and Janet Achebe, who christened their son Albert Chinualamogu.
		Achebe was forced to leave Lagos after the second coup, and during the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70) he became a spokesperson for the Biafran cause in Europe and North America.
		Chinua Achebe has been an active and visible public figure in Nigeria since the 1950's, and it is not surprising that his writings parallel his personal experiences.
	lfa.atu.edu /Brucker/Achebe.html (2932 words)

	Chinua Achebe - MSN Encarta
		Chinua Achebe, born in 1930, Nigerian novelist and poet, whose works explore the impact of European culture on African society.
		Born in Ogidi, Nigeria, Achebe was educated at the University College of Ibadan (now the University of Ibadan).
		Achebe's subsequent novels No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987) are set in Africa and describe the struggles of the African people to free themselves from European political influences.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761554062/Chinua_Achebe.html (317 words)

	Achebe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Achebe's latest novel, Anthills of the Savannah, was published in 1987, more than twenty years after A Man of the People (1966).
		Achebe played a significant role in the development of the Heinemann African Writers Series, a series which has given many Africans a voice in the western world and which, outside of Africa, publishes more African (and Caribbean) writers than any other publishing house.
		That is, Achebe is writing in the middle of the 20th Century, at the very end of the colonial period, about the beginnings of that period.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~carlisle/Postcolonial/Chinua_Achebe/ChinuaAchebe.html (433 words)

	New York State Writers Institute - Chinua Achebe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Chinua Achebe has received numerous other honors from around the world and is a recipient of the highest award for intellectual achievement in his native country of Nigeria.
		Thirty years ago Chinua Achebe was one of the founders of this new literature, and over the years many critics have come to consider him the finest of the Nigerian novelists.
		Chinua Achebe was born Chinualumogu Albert Achebe, in Ogidi, in present-day Anambra State, Nigeria, in 1930 and was raised by devout Christian parents.
	www.albany.edu /writers-inst/achebe.html (588 words)

	Things Fall Apart
		Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria on November 16, 1930, the fifth of six children of Isaiah and Janet Achebe.
		When Achebe was five, his father retired, and the family moved to their ancestral village of Ogidi - into a house of earthen walls with a sheet-metal roof.
		Achebe became the director of African Studies at the University of Nigeria and edited Okika, a Nigerian literary journal.
	www.stfrancis.edu /en/student/achebe/chinua/chinua.htm (376 words)

	WowEssays.com - Chinua Achebe
		Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe is said to be “one of the most influential writers” of the century not only in Nigeria, his homeland but also throughout the world (Albany).
		Achebe is using this story as a way of informing the reader of what has happened to much of Nigeria with the changes the western world has brought to their villages.
		Achebe has discovered that many people have a false idea of the African culture and many people have stereotyped Africans and the way in which they live because they do not understand their culture.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ac2/rrg213.shtml (1448 words)

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 20th Century: Topic 1: Texts and Contexts
		Chinua Achebe (1930-), the most celebrated African novelist of his generation, was born in Nigeria and educated — in English — at the University of Ibadan, where he subsequently taught briefly before joining the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in Lagos.
		Achebe visited America in 1969 and, on his return, was appointed research fellow at the University of Nigeria.
		Achebe's critical writing is sometimes included in the broad category of "postcolonial" criticism, as much of this work interrogates and takes issue with writing from the period of colonialism and/or writing that reinforces the politics of imperialism.
	www.wwnorton.com /nael/20century/topic_1/chachebe.htm (2858 words)

	Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart
		Achebe is trying not only to inform the outside world about Ibo cultural traditions, but to remind his own people of their past and to assert that it had contained much of value.
		Achebe is doubtless stressing the contrast with other cultures here, familiar to African readers from the Bible, in which locusts are invariably a terrible plague.
		Achebe often reminds us that this is not a frozen, timeless culture, but a constantly changing one.
	www.wsu.edu:8000 /~brians/anglophone/achebe.html (3284 words)

	Chinua Achebe
		Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, the son of a teacher in a missionary school.
		Achebe shows his skills as a storyteller in 'The Madman' in which the social customs of the Ibo-speaking people are strongly present.
		Achebe has defined himself as a cultural nationalist with a revolutionary mission "to help my society regain belief in itself and put away the complexes of the years of denigration and self-abasement." But Achebe has not stopped criticizing postcolonial African leaders who have pillaged economies.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /achebe.htm (1645 words)

	Chinua Achebe Introduction
		Chinua Achebe: The Man and His Works is not a biography (even though it contains some biographical materials), but a critical analysis of Chinua Achebe’s novels and other writings, evaluating them for themes, and their relevance to the problems besieging Africa and African peoples in the global community.
		Achebe confesses that he did not set out to validate African civilization in any conscious way, but the circumstances of his birth, family upbringing, and training at the University College of Ibadan impelled him towards the eventual defense and reconstructive validation of Africa’s pristine civilization.
		Achebe’s literary thoughts have given to all Africans, descendants of enslaved Africans, and all marginalized peoples, the weapon of freedom to defend the historico-cultural values of their homeland.
	www.nathanielturner.com /chinuaacheberoseuremezu2.htm (1752 words)

	Interactive Workshops -- In Search of the Novel
		Albert Chinaulumogu Achebe was born in 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria.
		Since the 1950's, Nigeria has witnessed "the flourishing of a new literature.." Thirty years ago Chinua Achebe was one of the founders of this new literature, and over the years many critics have come to consider him the finest of the Nigerian novelists.
		Achebe believes that our ancestors created their myths and told their stories for a human purpose and therefore "any good story, any good novel, should have a message..."Unlike some African writers struggling for acceptance among contemporary English-language novelists, Achebe has been able to avoid imitating the trends in English literature.
	www.learner.org /channel/workshops/isonovel/Pages/Achebepage.html (196 words)

	Heart of Darkness: : Chinua Achebe: The Lecture Heard Around The World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Achebe’s criticism of Conrad is not limited to this essay, he is in a fact a well read novelist.
		Achebe sets the tone of this piece with a speech given by one of the elders of the tribes, “Today greatness has changed its tune.
		Further, Hawkins swift but certain move to reduce Achebe’s essay to a simple ‘writing off’ illustrates the point Achebe tries to make in his essay: that Conrad’s place in the canon of high-literature is so secure that it blinds the reader and critic to the operations of racism in the text.
	caxton.stockton.edu /hod/achebe (1495 words)

	Achebe, Chinua - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A graduate of University College at Ibadan (1953), Achebe, an Igbo who writes in English, is one of Africa's most acclaimed authors and considered by some to be the father of modern African literature.
		Contradictions and alternatives in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah.
		Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Culture.(analysis)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/Achebe-C1.asp (395 words)

	LitKicks: Chinua Achebe: My Spirit Come Fight for Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Achebe was raised in the shadow of two cultures: that of the British colonialists and his native Igbo people.
		Achebe graduated from the University with a B.A. in 1953.
		Achebe is the founder and editor of two journals, a novelist, poet, essayist and lecturer.
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=ChinuaAchebe (1234 words)

	USAfricaonline.com \| Chido \|African Literature \|
		Chinua Achebe, Africa's most acclaimed and fluent writer of the English Language, our pathfinder, the intellectual godfather of millions of Africans and lovers of the fine art of good writing, was only 28 years when he wrote the classic, Things Fall Apart, in 1958 -- long before I was born.
		Achebe's decision to reject the 2004 national honors from Obasanjo is not accidental; it's rooted in his position that a writer ought to see himself/herself as a part of the wider goal of building a better society.
		Achebe has never shied away from speaking his truths to the face of power, especially writing with such lucidity and accessibility that his essays and books have since become equalizers for the scholarly and the average reader.
	www.usafricaonline.com /chido.achebebest.html (5842 words)

	Home and Exile - Chinua Achebe
		Achebe writes of his Igbo (Ibo) childhood, though it is only a glimpse of his family life that is offered.
		Achebe convincingly presents Cary's book as a challenge that in many ways inspired him, his own work, and especially his attitude towards literature.
		Nigerian author Chinua Achebe (Albert Chinualumogu Achebe) was born 16 November 1930.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/achebec/homexile.htm (724 words)

	PEN American Center - Chinua Achebe
		Chinua Achebe was born Ogidi, Nigeria on November 16, 1930.
		Achebe's hey works include: Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Beware, Soul Brother, Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems, and Anthills of the Savanna.
		Chinua Achebe has received more than 20 honorary doctorates and several international literary prizes.
	pen.org /page.php/prmID/1166 (83 words)

	BBC - BBC Four Profile - Chinua Achebe
		A member of the Ibo people, Chinua Achebe was born into a Christian family in what was then the British colony of Nigeria, but as a child found himself drawn to the customs of his non-Christian neighbours.
		Achebe's first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), showed how the impact of Western influences on traditional Ibo African society was by no means beneficial.
		Chinua Achebe has received more than twenty honorary doctorates and several international literary prizes.
	www.bbc.co.uk /bbcfour/documentaries/profile/chinua-achebe.shtml (476 words)

	Chinua Achebe Assignment Guide - Kingwood College
		Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, an Igbo village near the Niger River in a Nigeria under British rule.
		Achebe fled to the Igbo region of Nigeria, which later declared itself an independent country, the Republic of Biafra.
		The new country suffered much misery, but Achebe supported the new republic, using his energies to begin a new publishing firm and to seek aid for the children in Biafra.
	kclibrary.nhmccd.edu /achebe.htm (1100 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Chinua Achebe
		Chinua Achebe, poet and novelist, is one of the most important living African writers.
		Born Albert Chinualumogo Achebe, Chinua Achebe was raised by Christian evangelical parents in the large village Ogidi, in Igboland, Eastern Nigeria.
		Achebe left his career in radio in 1966, during the national unrest and violence that led to the Biafran War.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_chinua_achebe.html (411 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		For example, Achebe's first reference to the character Ikemefuna as "ill-fated," at the end of Chapter 1, foreshadows the boy's death and Okonkwo's son Nwoye's troubled response in Chapter 7, which in turn foreshadows Nwoye's conversion to Christianity and joining the missionaries in Chapter 16.
		One theme that appears over and over in Achebe's writing is that our perceptions and the stories we tell are shaped by our social and cultural context, and he emphasizes that, "those that have been written about should also participate in the making of these stories" ("An African Voice").
		An alternate assignment would be a comparison of Achebe's views on the role of the writer with those of the Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka in his Interview on writing, role of writer, and political activism, available through the EDSITEment-reviewed resource Conversations with History.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=382 (3606 words)

	authortrek.com - Chinua Achebe page Chinua Achebe bibliography
		Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930.
		Achebe’s father was a teacher in a missionary school, which probably helped Chinua’s later career as a writer.
		Chinua Achebe is considered to have been the first Nigerian writer to adapt the European novel to African storytelling, and he has won a reputation as being one of the best authors writing in English internationally.
	www.authortrek.com /chinua_achebe_page.html (964 words)

	Chinua Achebe and Language
		Achebe is at pains to point out the way in which language can act as a barrier between two cultures.
		While Achebe himself may share some of these feelings, he is adamant today that “the language situation is not solved by taking doctrinaire decisions” such as a decision to banish the English language from Nigeria, for example.
		However, Achebe has highlighted the complexity of his multi-lingual society, and his belief that the all-embracing Igbo culture is in fact based on complexities such as these.
	www.qub.ac.uk /english/imperial/nigeria/language.htm (870 words)

	Chinua Achebe WWW Links (achebe1)
		Site includes a critique of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart", an article on doing fieldwork in Tanzanian folklore plus ethical issues, study abroad programs in Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and a commentary on the current politics of Rwanda; Mbele taught at the University of Burundi.
		Chinua Achebe and the Language of the Colonizer (Katharine Slattery, completed for the MA degree in Modern Literary Studies, dir.
		Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe explains in an interview that his interest in stories about life and adventure on other lands prompted him to choose a career in writing.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe1.htm (1651 words)

	Amazon.fr : Home and Exile: Livres: Chinua Achebe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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.
		Achebe is not an enemy of Western culture; he merely asserts Africans' right to their own perspective and their own art, as exemplified in works like his groundbreaking 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart.
		This notion of individuality, which made the Africans vulnerable to the Atlantic slave traders and to colonial occupation, is the same quality that defined the native African fiction and poetry that emerged in the 1950s, at the time of independence for many African nations.
	www.amazon.fr /Home-Exile-Chinua-Achebe/dp/1841953857 (443 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Chinua Achebe and Robert Lyons
		Achebe was born in 1930 in Ogidi, an Igbo village in eastern Nigeria.
		In 1990, Achebe was in an automobile accident in Lagos that left him confined to a wheelchair.
		Lyons first became acquainted with Achebe's works while Lyons was a student at Hampshire College and Achebe was teaching nearby at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
	www.lectures.org /achebe.html (1574 words)

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