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Chinua Achebe. Chinua Achebe (pronunție: ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ) (n. 16 noiembrie 1930, Ogidi (d), Statul Anambra, Nigeria – d. 21 martie 2013, Boston, Massachusetts, SUA) a fost un scriitor nigerian de limbă engleză . A scris romane prezentând dezagregarea societăților africane tradiționale în contact cu civilizația ...
Mar 24, 2019 · Chinua Achebe (1930 – 2013) is probably both the most widely known and the most representative African novelist. He may very well have written the first African novel of real literary merit—such at least is the opinion of Charles Larson—and he deals with what one can call the classic issue that preoccupies his fellow novelists, the clash…
Chinua Achebe has 140 books on Goodreads with 926668 ratings. Chinua Achebe’s most popular book is Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1).
Chinua Achebe first delivered this critique in the Second Chancellor’s Lecture at the University of Massachusetts on February 18, 1975. It was later published in the Massachusetts Review in 1977 ...
Chinua Achebe was born on November 15, 1930, in Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria. His family belonged to the Igbo tribe, and he was the fifth of six children. Representatives of the British government that controlled Nigeria convinced his parents, Isaiah Okafor Achebe and Janet Ileogbunam, to abandon their traditional religion and follow Christianity.
Chinua Achebe can be counted among the founders of the new literature of Nigeria, which has flourished since the 1950’s; it is a literature that draws upon traditional oral history as well as a ...
Summary. ‘Dereliction’ by Chinua Achebe is an ambiguous poem that questions the repercussions and absolution of failing to fulfill one’s duties. ‘ Dereliction’ begins with the first ’s . This speaker is notably a child who demonstrates dereliction in the most simple form. They quit sitting on a stool because of a termite infestation.
