Background
Achebe, Chinua was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. Son of Isaiah Okafo and Janet N. (Iloegbunam) Achebe.
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Here, collected for the first time in Everyman’s Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be known as Chinua Achebe’s “African Trilogy.” Beginning with the best-selling Things Fall Apart—on the heels of its fiftieth anniversary—The African Trilogy captures a society caught between its traditional roots and the demands of a rapidly changing world. Achebe’s most famous novel introduces us to Okonkwo, an important member of the Igbo people, who fails to adjust as his village is colonized by the British. In No Longer at Ease we meet his grandson, Obi Okonkwo, a young man who was sent to a university in England and has returned, only to clash with the ruling elite to which he now believes he belongs. Arrow of God tells the story of Ezuelu, the chief priest of several Nigerian villages, and his battle with Christian missionaries. In these masterful novels, Achebe brilliantly sets universal tales of personal and moral struggle in the context of the tragic drama of colonization.
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Theologia Moralis Universa, Book 2: de Virtute Religionis, de Justitia Et Jure, de Restitutione AC de Virtutibus Theologicis (1869)
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Special book club edition published in 1995 of all 3 stories Things Fall Apart...No Longer at Ease...Anthills of the Savannah
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(No Longer at Ease: Intermediate)
No Longer at Ease: Intermediate
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One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming goes hand in hand with eradicating the destructive effects of racism and injustice in Western society. He reveals the impediments that still stand in the way of open, equal dialogue between Africans and Europeans, between blacks and whites, but also instills us with hope that they will soon be overcome.
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(Things Fall Apart, tells of a troubled young African whos...)
Things Fall Apart, tells of a troubled young African whose formal education separates him from his roots and makes him part of a corrupt ruling elite he despises.
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Ezeulu es el sumo sacerdote de Ulu, la deidad principal de varias aldeas Ibo enfrentadas con los poblados del jefe de clan Umuaro. El conflicto se zanja con la intervención de la administración colonial británica, que manda a la aldea a un misionero e invita a Ezeulu a sumarse a la administración colonial, pero éste se nieg
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(Things Fall Apart)
Things Fall Apart
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Daughters At School Instructed in A Series of Letters. by the Rev. Rufus W. Bailey.
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Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also included is The Trouble with Nigeria, Achebe's searing outpouring of his frustrations with his country. GREAT IDEAS. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.
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Slight spots in front
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(Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African an...)
Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's downfall results from his own character as well as from external forces. Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 in the village of Ogidi in Eastern Nigeria. After studying medicine and literature at the University of Ibadan, he went to work for the Nigerian broadcasting company in Lagos.
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Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son.
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Achebe's first novel portrays the collision of African and European cultures in people's lives. Okonkwo, a great man in Igbo traditional society, cannot adapt to the profound changes brought about by British colonial rule. Yet, as in classic tragedy, Okonkwo's downfall results from his own character as well as from external forces. Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European missionaries. These perfectly harmonized twin dramas are informed by an awareness capable of encompassing at once the life of nature, human history, and the mysterious compulsions of the soul.
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The story of a man whose foreign education has separated him from his African roots and made him parts of a ruling elite whose corruption he finds repugnant. More than thirty years after it was first written, this novel remains a brilliant statement on the challenges still facing African society.
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Achebe, Chinua was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. Son of Isaiah Okafo and Janet N. (Iloegbunam) Achebe.
Student, University College, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1948—1952. Bachelor, University London, 1953. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Dartmouth College, 1972.
DUniv, Stirling University, Scotland, 1975. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Southampton, England, 1975. Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Prince Edward Isl., Canada, 1976.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), University Massachusetts, 1977. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Ife, Nigeria, 1978. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Nigeria, Nsukka, 1981.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Kent, Canterbury, England, 1982. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Mount Allison University, Sackville, Canada, 1984. Doctor of Letters (honorary), University Guelph, Canada, 1984.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Franklin Pierce College, 1985. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Ibadan University, 1989. DUniv, Open University, England, 1989.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Georgetown University, 1990. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Port Harcourt University, Nigeria, 1991. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Skidmore College, 1991.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), City College of New York, 1992. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Fitchburg State College, 1994. Doctor of Letters, Harvard University, 1996.
Doctor of Letters, Binghamton University, 1996. Doctor of Letters, Bates College, 1996. Doctor of Letters, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2002.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Westfield College, 1989. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), New School for Social Research, 1991. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Hobart and William Smith College, 1991.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Marymount Manhattan College, 1991. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Colgate University, 1993. Doctor of Letters, Syracuse University, 1997.
Doctor of Letters, Trinity College, 1999. Doctor of Letters, Ohio Wesleyan University, 1999. Doctor of Letters, University Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2000.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Cape Town University, South Africa, 2002. Doctor of Letters, Haverford College, 2001. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Toronto University, 2006.
Doctor of Letters (honorary), Sokoto University, Nigeria, 2006.
Producer, Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, Lagos 1954-1958, Regional Controller, Enugu 1958-1961, Director Voice of Nigeria, Lagos 1961-1966. Senior Research Fellow, University of Nigeria, Nsukka 1967-1972. Rockefeller Fellowship 1960-1961.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Fellowship 1963.
Foundation; Professor, of English, University of Massachusetts 1972-1975, University of Connecticut 1975-1976, University of Nigeria, Nsukka 1976-1981. Professor Emeritus Nsukka since 1985.
Pro-Chancellor and Chair, of Council, Anambra State University of Technology, Enugu, Nigeria 1986-1988. Regents Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles 1984.
Founding; Director Heinemann Educational Books (Nigeria) Limited., Nwamife (Publishers), Enugu.
President Association of Nigerian Authors 1981-1986. Professor, of English, City College, New York 1989. Montgomery Fellow and Visiting Professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover 1990.
Visiting Professor, Stanford University 1990.
Honorary; Fellow, Modem Language Association of America 1974. Neil Gunn Institute Fellow 1975.
Fellow, Ghana Association of Writers 1975. Honorary Doctorate.Univ.; Honorary Doctor of Letters (ten times).
Honorary Doctorate.H.L. (Massachusetts).
Honorary Doctor of Laws (Prince Edward Island). Honorary degree (Open University) 1989. Margaret Wrong Memorial.
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(Special book club edition published in 1995 of all 3 stor...)
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Member council Lagos (Nigeria) University, 1966. Member East Central State Library. Board, 1971-1972, Anambra State Arts Council, 1977-1979.
Goodwill ambassador United Nations Population Fund, 1998-1906. Fellow: Modern Language Association (honorary), Nigerian Academy Letters, Royal Society Literature (honorary). Member: Royal African Society (vice president London 1998), Nonino Risit D'Aur, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Married Christie Chinwe Okoli, September 10, 1961. Children: Chinelo, Ikechukwu, Chidi, Nwando.
