Chinua Achebe: Teacher of Light, A Biography

Name: Chinua Achebe: Teacher of Light, A Biography
Brand: Africa Research & Publications
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By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

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One of the world's leading novelist and the manwho launched the development of an entirecontinent's literature, Chinua Achebe is asrenowned for his 1958 debut, Things Fall Apart,the first book to offer an answer to Europeancaricatures of African characters, as he is forhis subsequent life work, which includes Anthillsof the Savannah among numerous others. Thisbiography explores Achebe's writing as well as hisearly life in colonial Nigeria, his involvement inthe Nigerian Civil War, and his academic andpolitical work over the past thirty years.

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Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 174
Release Date:: 2003-08-01
Publication Date:: 2003-08-01
Publisher:: Africa Research & Publications
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 1592210325
Weight:: 204 g

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