In discussing how questions of race are interpreted in Heart of Darkness, Chinua
Achebe's famous essay on the book and the considerable literature responding to it serve as an important case study in the relation between Conrad's novel and Gadamer's philosophy.
Chinua
Achebe, the celebrated pioneer of modern African literature, lived and wrote from the intersection of Western culture and traditional African life.
This paper looks at the textual representations of gender in
Achebe's Things Fall Apart through analyzing structural and linguistic devices, which, we argue, are emblematic of the macro-structures of African society.
One of the 49 contributors to this collection of essays that examine the life and legacy of Chinua
Achebe is Ernest N Emenyonu, a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters who, as
Achebe did, teaches African Literature in the US.
as a protege of Chinua
Achebe, and he holds a Ph.D.
It can be classified as a review article of the Third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature, the first major world literature anthology not to feature Chinua
Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
THE PENGUIN ANTHOLOGY OF CONTEMporary African Writing, published in 2009, opens with a piece by the Nigerian author Chinua
Achebe, who died last year at the age of 82.
Age never stops on borrowed time Death does no worse Than to close life's Fountain of mirth You have run the race You refused your Country's crown of victory Corruption did not appeal To your sense of justice Statehood for your people Denied, you dwelled fully In academia, preferring To revive the history, myths And struggle of the Ibos to be free I remember well your Letter wishing me well On my dissertation "The Post-colonial Syndrome In the works of Chinua
Achebe" The world mourns your passing Literary trailblazer Cast your spell on Africa as you depart this scene
Achebe kwenu !
The present study intended to investigate the portrayal of African culture and identity in this novel and
Achebe's response towards the colonialist ideology and culture, in the light of Postcolonial theories.
NEWS OF THE DEATH of the great Nigerian writer Chinua
Achebe, who passed away on March 21 at the age of eighty-two, reached me at my office in Munich through the wildfire of the Internet.
Randhawa also translated works of Chinua
Achebe and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Punjabi.