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Chinua Achebe


Born
in Ogidi, Anambra, Nigeria
November 16, 1930

Died
March 21, 2013

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Works, including the novel Things Fall Apart (1958), of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe describe traditional African life in conflict with colonial rule and westernization.

This poet and critic served as professor at Brown University. People best know and most widely read his first book in modern African literature.

Christian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria reared Achebe, who excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. World religions and traditional African cultures fascinated him, who began stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian broadcasting service and quickly moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He gained worldwide attention in the late 1950s; his la
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Anthills of the Savannah

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Girls at War and Other Stories

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The African Trilogy. Things...

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Quotes by Chinua Achebe  (?)
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“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
Chinua Achebe

“The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.”
Chinua Achebe

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”
Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

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June 2021 Revisit the Shelf Poll

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro pub. 1989, 258 pp., last read Sept 2018
 
  54 votes, 21.3%

Tess of The D'ubervilles by Thomas Hardy pub. 1891, 518 pp., last read June 2018
 
  52 votes, 20.5%

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson pub. 1883, 311 pp., last read 2011
 
  41 votes, 16.1%

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera 320 pages, pub. 1984, last read Dec. 2012
 
  38 votes, 15.0%

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe last read 2/2015, 209 pp., pub 1958
 
  25 votes, 9.8%

Shirley by Charlotte Brontë 624 pp., pub. 1849, last read Dec. 2018
 
  23 votes, 9.1%

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury pub 1950, 182 pp. last read March 2016
 
  21 votes, 8.3%

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