Chinua Achebe
Appearance
Chinua Achebe | |
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![]() Achebe in 2008 | |
Born | Albert Chinualumogu Achebe 16 November 1930 Ogidi, Nigerie Pertectorate |
Dee'd | 21 Mairch 2013 Boston, Massachusetts, Unitit States | (aged 82)
Thrift | David an Marianna Fisher Varsity Professor an Professor o Africana Studies Brown Varsity (2009–2013) Charles P. Stevenson Professor o Leids an Leeteratur Bard College (1990–2008) |
Naitionality | Nigerian |
Ethnicity | Igbo |
Period | 1958–2013 |
Notable warks | The African Trilogy: –Things Fall Apart, –No Longer at Ease, –Arrow of God; An aa, A Man of the People, an Anthills of the Savannah. |
Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 Mairch 2013) wis a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, an creetic.[1] His first novelle Things Fall Apart (1958) is an aa conseedered his magnum opus,[2] an is the maist widely read beuk in modren African leeteratur.[3]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Ezenwa-Ohaeto, p. 6.
- ↑ Franklin, Ruth. "After Empire: Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel". The New Yorker, 26 May 2008. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
- ↑ Ogbaa, p. xv.
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