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The African Trilogy Chinua Achebe
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The Education of a British-Protected ChildChinua AchebeChinua 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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Chike and the RiverChinua AchebeBooks |
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Hopes and ImpedimentsChinua AchebeBooks |
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Things Fall ApartChinua AchebeBooks |
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Home and ExileChinua AchebeBooks |
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Things Fall Apart (Audible Audio Edition) Chinua Achebe
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A Man of the PeopleChinua AchebeBooks |
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Anthills of the SavannahChinua AchebeBooks |
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Arrow of GodChinua AchebeBooks |
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 EaseChinua AchebeChinua Achebe |
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Things Fall ApartChinua AchebeBooks |
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