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The Voter By Chinua Achebe
Home Printer-friendly PDF Printer-friendly PDF REQUIEM FOR CHINUA ACHEBE REQUIEM FOR CHINUA ACHEBE By Obadiah Mailafia On Wednesday 21st March, Nigeria, Africa – and indeed the intellectual world community - received with shock the news of the passing of Chinua Achebe. Most of my generation grew up with the novels of Chinua Achebe.
Chinua Achebe Biography
About Home and Exile “A rare opportunity to glimpse a bit of the man behind the monumental novels.” — Chicago Tribune Powerful and deeply personal, these three essays by the great Nigerian author articulate his mission to rescue African culture from the narratives written by Europeans. Looking through the prism of his experiences as a student in English schools in Nigeria, he recalls his first encounters with European perspectives on Africa in the works of Joyce Cary and Elspeth Huxley. He examines the impact that his novel Things Fall Apart —as well as fellow Nigerian Amos Tutola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard and Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mt. Kenya, among other works —had on efforts to reclaim Africa’s story. He confronts the persistence of colonial views of Africa. And he argues for the importance of living and writing the African experience: Africa needs stories told by Africans.