ISINKA, the Artistic Purpose: Chinua Achebe and Theory of African Literature (Emerging Perspectives on Chinua Achebe, Vol. 2)
Sify (Free subscription) | yesterday
"The Education of a British-Protected Child" (Knopf, 208 pages, $24.95), by Chinua Achebe: Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's new book, his first in 20 years, is not especially new. And maybe that's
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
"The Education of a British-Protected Child" (Knopf, 208 pages, $24.95), by Chinua Achebe: Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's new book, his first in 20 years, is not especially new. And maybe that's part of the point.
Acumen Fund Blog (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
In the mid 1950s, Chinua Achebe, then a mid level employee of the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS), began work on an epic and in many ways unprecedented novel, the story of several generations of Nigerian men. The idea for the work, which would later be condensed into the single, sharply propulsive narrative of the noble though hubristic Okonkwo, came to Achebe while still enrolled at the University...
sotosay (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
I have been fascinated with Chinua Achebe for a log time… well ever since I read, what else, Things Fall Apart. His fame quite strongly is built on his novels. But I like his poems a lot too. He is forthright in his poems. They are clearly political and display the same poise of mind [...]
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
In 1958, while he was still in his 20s, Chinua Achebe published “Things Fall Apart,” the story of a traditional leader named Okonkwo whose inflexible nature undermines his humanity and his ability to resist the encroachments of British missionaries. “Things Fall Apart” has sold more than 8 million copies. It ...
The Falcoholic (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I believed. At various points in last night's game against the Saints , I really believed the Falcons were going to roar back and win it. All the signs were there. The defense was buckling down. The offense was moving efficiently. We looked nigh invincible some drives. It was a beautiful thing. And then, as Chinua Achebe wrote , things fall apart. It was a real gut punch of a game in that way. We weren't...
The Mumpsimus (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I had promised myself I would not blog again until I had finished x, y, and z, and while x and y are finished, z (an essay about J.M. Coetzee's memoir-novels) is beating me up and winning. But I'm going to pause in the fight for a moment and break my self-promise because today I discovered Aaron Bady's astoundingly excellent blog Zunguzungu via a marvelous post Bady wrote at The Valve about Chinua...
The Valve (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
But as soon as I started reading The House of Hunger, I realized that the question of overdetermination was more complicated than I initially thought. Marechera’s “avant-garde” fiction could not simply be juxtaposed against Achebe’s works; on the contrary, it existed in a productive relation to it, so much so that one could not argue for the newness of the title story or novella...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
LAST week, the famous Nigerian novelist, Chinua Achebe received an unlikely guest at his home in the Catskills. Nuhu Ribadu, Nigeria's former anti-corruption cop went to see the sagely fabulist. It might have been a social visit, but one thing led to another, and soon Nuhu Ribadu and Achebe began to talk about the prodigal nation.
Boswell and Books (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
One of my finds of the Chicago fall gift show were these South African tribal-inspired candles. They come in tapers, pillars and balls and in a variety of hues. We've got some Christmas and winter/Hanukkah themed candles ready to come out later, but for fall, these espresso-colored ones were just perfect to organize a display. Oh, they don't have a scent, but you can display them with a Smencil, if...
Song of a Reformed Headhunter (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Chinua Achebe was interviewed by K. Anthony Appiah at 92Y last night. Things Fall Apart , the only Achebe novel I read, is about the coming of the Christian missionaries into Igboland, Nigeria. I read it after reading Ngugi wa Thiongo's The River Between as a teenager, and loving it. The occasion for the 92Y reading was the publication of The Education of a British-Protected Child, a collection of...
TONY Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
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Wax Banks (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
(The title is, of course, a Cosma Shalizi hat-tip.) Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe. This was the first novel I'd read in a long, long time - this summer, I think - and I couldn't enjoy it until I realized...
92Y Blog (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Next Monday, the Unterberg Poetry Center is privileged to welcome back Chinua Achebe , who recently published his first book in more than twenty years— The Education of a British-Protected Child , a collection of autobiographical essays. Mr. Achebe will be in conversation with K. Anthony Appiah, the philosopher and president of the PEN American Center. “For so many readers,” Mr. Appiah...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The Biafran war is an unlikely subject for a bestseller, but I was hooked by the quality of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's storytelling in Half of a Yellow Sun This month John Mullan's book club is looking at Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a book that's sold a cool half-million copies in the UK alone. This commercial success is perhaps something of a surprise for a book about the Biafran...
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