Biography
Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 at Ogidi and died March 21, 2013 in Boston. He is an English-speaking Nigerian writer. Novelist and poet, he is the author of Things Fall Apart (Things Fall Apart) and No Longer at Ease.
In the late 1960s, he distinguished himself in the Biafra conflict in which he supported the Biafran Freedom Fighter, led by Colonel Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
After teaching in many English universities both in America and Nigeria, he became a professor at Bard College in New York and then at the University Brown.
In 1990, he had an accident that nailed him to a roulant chair.
Chinua Achebe?s work is a profound meditation on colonialism. His novels put in a situation of an African hero at the crossroads of two worlds: a Western world with an abstract rationality, without justice and African traditional values ??which make his subjects disqualified disabled for new times. This is one of the most famous writers of African English expression. This made him to be severally nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Things Fall Apart (1958) described an Africa before the shock of the arrival of Europeans. This book sold more than 400, 000 copies in 1969, and in 1987, reached three million copies. It is translated in 45 languages.
In another book, the termite savannah, he described an Africa taken by corruption, the false position of intellectuals, where the woman is the future.
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Biography
Biography of Chinua Achebe, Author, Anambra State Celebrity
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Albert Achebe Chinualumogu (he changes his name during his studies for a traditional Igbo name) was born in eastern Nigeria. He is the fifth out of six children born by Igbo parents: Isaiah Okafo and Janet Achebe, who are devout Christians.
Being a good student, Achebe won a scholarship during his studies at Government College Umuahia (a city that often appear in his books) from 1944-1947, from where he got admission into the University of Ibadan where he schooled from 1948 to 1953, and obtained his BA degree. Before joining the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), Achebe made a few trips to Africa and the United States and worked briefly as an English teacher. He trained at the BBC, and began working at NBC in 1954.
In 1958 he wrote his first novel, Things Fall Apart. He took part in a conference on African writers in Makerere University (Uganda) in 1962.
In the late 1960s, he distinguished himself in the Biafra conflict in which he supported the Biafran Freedom Fighter, led by Colonel Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu.
In 1972 he was appointed editor of the periodical Obike. In 1987, the leader of one of the major parties in the Muslim north asked him to be his deputy. He agreed to show his countrymen that it is possible, from the east of the country, to join a Northern party.
After teaching in many English universities both in America and Nigeria, he became a professor at Bard College in New York and then at the University Brown.
In 1990, he had an accident that nailed him to a roulant chair.
He died March 21, 2013 in a hospital at Boston.
Chinua Achebe?s work is a profound meditation on colonialism. His novels put in a situation of an African hero at the crossroads of two worlds: a Western world with an abstract rationality, without justice and African traditional values ??which make his subjects disqualified disabled for new times. This is one of the most famous writers of African English expression. This made him to be severally nominated for the Nobel Prize.
Things Fall Apart (1958) described an Africa before the shock of the arrival of Europeans. This book sold more than 400, 000 copies in 1969, and in 1987, reached three million copies. It is translated in 45 languages.
In another book, the termite savannah, he described an Africa taken by corruption, the false position of intellectuals, where the woman is the future.
He also authored the novel No Longer at Ease (The Malaise) which he placed at Nigeria Umuofia and Lagos, in the 1950s, before independence.
In 1972, a critic wrote of Achebe, Armah and Okara as follows: ?they are now opening new ways to African novel, particularly by denouncing the evils of African society. But given the political situation, they have to disguise their critics: hence the tendency to "social satire and politique. " ?
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