Author : Robert M. Wren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : African fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015038929678
Achebe's World
Robert M. Wren
Achebe S World
Achebe S World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Achebe S World book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385474542
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe Pdf
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Chinua Achebe
Rose Ure Mezu
Author : Rose Ure Mezu
Publisher : Adonis & Abbey Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122939312
Chinua Achebe by Rose Ure Mezu Pdf
One of the critical concerns in Nigeria is how to alleviate poverty in the country. The general prevalence of poverty in Nigeria is paradoxical because the country is one of the biggest oil-producing countries in the world. A 1999 World Bank report for instance showed that some 70 per cent of the population lives below the bread line - usually considered as living on less than US$1.00 a day. This raises a number of very important questions: What are really responsible for the wide prevalence of poverty in Nigeria in the midst of plenty? How is poverty manifested in the country? What alleviation strategies are in place? How effective are they? And what are the implications of all these for the country's democracy project, political stability, nation-building and development discourse? Contributors to this volume address these questions and provide insights into some of the central issues in the discussion of poverty, including how the poor themselves struggle to cope or adapt to their condition. Using multidisciplinary perspectives, the contributors critique the current alleviation strategies and recommend more viable and better- targeted approaches that will sharply reduce the incidence of poverty in Nigeria.
Holding the World Together
Nwando Achebe,Claire Robertson
Author : Nwando Achebe,Claire Robertson
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299321109
Holding the World Together by Nwando Achebe,Claire Robertson Pdf
Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney
Chinua Achebe, Teacher of Light
Tijan M. Sallah,Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Author : Tijan M. Sallah,Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060370262
Chinua Achebe, Teacher of Light by Tijan M. Sallah,Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Pdf
One of the world's leading novelists and the man who launched the development of an entire continent's literature, Chinua Achebe is as renowned for his 1958 debut, Things Fall Apart, the first book to offer an answer to European caricatures of African characters, as he is for his subsequent life work, which includes Anthills of the Savannah among numerous others. This biography explores Achebe's writing as well as his early life in colonial Nigeria, his involvement in the Nigerian Civil War, and his academic and political work over the past thirty years.
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature
Tanure Ojaide
Author : Tanure Ojaide
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137560032
Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature by Tanure Ojaide Pdf
Literature remains one of the few disciplines that reflect the experiences, sensibility, worldview, and living realities of its people. Contemporary African literature captures the African experience in history and politics in a multiplicity of ways. Politics itself has come to intersect and impact on most, if not all, aspects of the African reality. This relationship of literature with African people’s lives and condition forms the setting of this study. Tanure Ojaide’s Indigeneity, Globalization, and African Literature: Personally Speaking belongs with a well-established tradition of personal reflections on literature by African creative writer-critics. Ojaide’s contribution brings to the table the perspective of what is now recognized as a “second generation” writer, a poet, and a concerned citizen of Nigeria’s Niger Delta area.
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa
Nwando Achebe
Author : Nwando Achebe
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821440803
Female Monarchs and Merchant Queens in Africa by Nwando Achebe Pdf
An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe’s unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe breaks from Western perspectives, research methods, and their consequently incomplete, skewed accounts, to demonstrate the critical importance of distinctly African source materials and world views to any comprehensible African history. This means accounting for the two realities of African cosmology: the physical world of humans and the invisible realm of spiritual gods and forces. That interconnected universe allows biological men and women to become female-gendered males and male-gendered females. This phenomenon empowers the existence of particular African beings, such as female husbands, male priestesses, female kings, and female pharaohs. Achebe portrays their combined power, influence, and authority in a sweeping, African-centric narrative that leads to an analogous consideration of contemporary African women as heads of state, government officials, religious leaders, and prominent entrepreneurs.
A Man of the People
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9966468048
A Man of the People by Chinua Achebe Pdf
I en ny selvstændig afrikansk stat bekæmper en ung lærer landets korrupte og kvindeglade kulturminister for at få hævn over ham
Chike and the River
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307742070
Chike and the River by Chinua Achebe Pdf
The more Chike saw the ferry-boats the more he wanted to make the trip to Asaba. But where would he get the money? He did not know. Still, he hoped. Eleven-year-old Chike longs to cross the Niger River to the city of Asaba, but he doesn’t have the sixpence he needs to pay for the ferry ride. With the help of his friend S.M.O.G., he embarks on a series of adventures to help him get there. Along the way, he is exposed to a range of new experiences that are both thrilling and terrifying, from eating his first skewer of suya under the shade of a mango tree, to visiting the village magician who promises to double the money in his pocket. Once he finally makes it across the river, Chike realizes that life on the other side is far different from his expectations, and he must find the courage within him to make it home. Chike and the River is a magical tale of boundaries, bravery, and growth, by Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most beloved and admired storytellers.
Encyclopedia of World Writers, 1800 to the Present
Marie Diamond
Author : Marie Diamond
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781646930036
Encyclopedia of World Writers, 1800 to the Present by Marie Diamond Pdf
In recent years, schools have started introducing more inclusive syllabi emphasizing the works and ideas of previously overlooked or underrepresented writers. Readers of all ages can now explore the rich contributions of writers from around the world. These writers have various backgrounds, and unlike most writers from the U.S. or the United Kingdom, information on them in English can be difficult to find. Encyclopedia of World Writers: 1800 to the Present covers the most important writers outside of the U.S., Britain, and Ireland since 1800. More than 330 insightful, A-to-Z entries profile novelists, poets, dramatists, and short-story writers whose works are anthologized in textbooks or assigned in high school English classes. Entries range in length from 200 to 1,000 words each and include a biographical sketch, synopses of major works, and a brief bibliography. Dozens of entries are new to this edition and many existing entries have been updated and significantly expanded with new "Critical Analysis" sections. Coverage includes: Chinua Achebe Margaret Atwood Roberto Bolaño Albert Camus Khalid Hosseini Victor Hugo Mohammad Iqbal Franz Kafka Stieg Larsson Mario Vargas Llosa Naghib Mahfouz Gabriel García Márquez Kenzaburo Oe Marcel Proust Leo Tolstoy Emile Zola and more.
The Lost Art of Reading
David L. Ulin
Author : David L. Ulin
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781570617218
The Lost Art of Reading by David L. Ulin Pdf
Reading is a revolutionary act, an act of engagement in a culture that wants us to disengage. In The Lost Art of Reading, David L. Ulin asks a number of timely questions - why is literature important? What does it offer, especially now? Blending commentary with memoir, Ulin addresses the importance of the simple act of reading in an increasingly digital culture. Reading a book, flipping through hard pages, or shuffling them on screen - it doesn't matter. The key is the act of reading, and it's seriousness and depth. Ulin emphasizes the importance of reflection and pause allowed by stopping to read a book, and the accompanying focus required to let the mind run free in a world that is not one's own. Are we willing to risk our collective interest in contemplation, nuanced thinking, and empathy? Far from preaching to the choir, The Lost Art of Reading is a call to arms, or rather, to pages.
There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101595985
There Was a Country by Chinua Achebe Pdf
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
No Longer at Ease
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141393995
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe Pdf
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl - to the disapproval of his parents - he sinks further into emotional and financial turmoil. The lure of easy money becomes harder to refuse, and Obi becomes caught in a trap he cannot escape. Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, and a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe's remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism, the first two volumes of which are Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God.
The Education of a British-Protected Child
Chinua Achebe
Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Bond Street Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307372673
The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe Pdf
Achebe’s first new book in more than twenty years — a new collection of autobiographical essays from the world-renowned author of Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe’s characteristically measured and subtle voice is ever-present in these seventeen, beautifully nuanced pieces. The Education of a British-Protected Child offers a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria. Achebe recalls both his happy memories of reading novels in secondary school and the harsher truths of imperial rule. In “African-American Visitations,” he allows us to witness the terrifying nature of the African diaspora and what it means not to know “from whence he came.” Politics and history figure in “What is Nigeria to Me?,” “Africa’s Tarnished Name,” and “Politics of the Politicians of Language.” And Achebe’s extraordinary family comes into view in “My Dad and Me” and “My Daughters.” Charmingly personal, intellectually disciplined, and immensely wise, The Education of a British-Protected Child is an indispensable addition to the remarkable Achebe oeuvre.
The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe
Kalu Ogbaa
Author : Kalu Ogbaa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000430615
The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe by Kalu Ogbaa Pdf
The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad. The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things Fall Apart opened the eyes of the world to a more realistic image of Africa that was warped by generations of European travelers, colonists, and writers. Whilst continuing to write further influential novels and essays, Achebe also taught other African writers to use their skills to help their national leaders to fight for their freedoms in the post-colonial era, as internal warfare compounded the damage caused by European powers during the colonial era. In this book Kalu Ogbaa, an esteemed expert on Achebe and his works, draws on extensive research and personal interviews with the great man and his colleagues and friends, to tell the story of Achebe and his work. This intimate and powerful new biography will be essential reading for students and scholars of Chinua Achebe, and to anyone with an interest in the literature and post-colonial politics of Africa.
