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The African Trilogy

Chinua Achebe
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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The Education of a British-Protected Child

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe

The Education of a British-Protected Child

From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize comes a new collection of autobiographical essays—his first new book in more than twenty years. Chinua Achebe's characteristically measured and nuanced voice is everywhere present in these seventeen beautifully written pieces. In a preface, he discusses his historic visit to his Nigerian homeland on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Things Fall Apart , the story of his tragic car accident nearly twenty years ago, and the potent symbolism of President Obama's election. In "The Education of a British-Protected Child," Achebe gives us a vivid portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its "middle ground," recalling both his happy memories of reading novels in secondary school and the harsher truths of colonial rule. In "Spelling Our Proper Name," Achebe considers the African-American diaspora, meeting and reading Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, and learning what it means not to know "from whence he came." The complex politics and history o...

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#9

Chike and the River

Chinua Achebe

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#8

Hopes and Impediments

Chinua Achebe

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#7

Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

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#6

Home and Exile

Chinua Achebe

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 #5

Things Fall Apart (Audible Audio Edition)

Chinua Achebe
Peter Francis James

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#4

A Man of the People

Chinua Achebe

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#3

Anthills of the Savannah

Chinua Achebe

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#2

Arrow of God

Chinua Achebe

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No Longer at Ease

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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No Longer at Ease

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe
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Things Fall Apart

Chinua Achebe

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