{"id":347,"date":"2022-08-27T00:58:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T19:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/witcritic.com\/?p=347"},"modified":"2023-06-12T09:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T04:25:18","slug":"chinua-achebe-1930-2013-nigerian-novelist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/witcritic.com\/index.php\/chinua-achebe-1930-2013-nigerian-novelist\/","title":{"rendered":"Life and Works of Chinua Achebe (1930-2013): Nigerian Novelist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-rank-math-toc-block\" id=\"rank-math-toc\"><h2>Table of Contents<\/h2><nav><ul><li><a href=\"#chinua-achebe\">Chinua Achebe<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#achebes-works\">Achebe\u2019s Works<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#african-trilogy\">African Trilogy<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\" id=\"Chinua-Achebe-(1930-2013):-Nigerian-Novelist\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/witcritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Achebe2.jpg?resize=216%2C293&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Chinua Achebe (1930-2013): Nigerian Novelist\" class=\"wp-image-348\" width=\"216\" height=\"293\" title=\"Chinua Achebe (1930-2013): Nigerian Novelist\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/witcritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Achebe2.jpg?w=432&amp;ssl=1 432w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/witcritic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Achebe2.jpg?resize=222%2C300&amp;ssl=1 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Chinua Achebe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"chinua-achebe\"><strong>Chinua Achebe<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chinua Achebe<\/strong>, in full&nbsp;<strong>Albert Chinualumogu Achebe<\/strong>, (born November 16, 1930, Ogidi, Nigeria\u2014died March 21, 2013,&nbsp;Boston,&nbsp;Massachusetts, U.S.), Nigerian novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the social and psychological disorientation accompanying the imposition of Western customs and values upon traditional African society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His particular concern was with emergent Africa at its moments of crisis; his novels range in subject matter from the first contact of an African village with the white man to the educated African\u2019s attempt to create a firm&nbsp;moral&nbsp;order out of the changing values in a large city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic; born and brought up in Igbo town of Ogidi<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u2022 Excelled in studies; became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures<br>\u2022 Began writing stories as a university student; worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS)<br>\u2022 Gained worldwide attention for his first novel and magnum opus Things Fall Apart (1958)<br>\u2022 Served as a professor at Brown University in the United States from 2009 until his death<br>\u2022 Was awarded the Man Booker International Prize in June 2007<br>\u2022 Died after a short illness in 2013 in Boston, United States<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"achebes-works\"><strong>Achebe\u2019s Works<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Novels focus on the traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash of Western and traditional African values during and after the colonial era<br>\u2022 His style relies heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory<br>\u2022 Also published a number of short stories, children&#8217;s books, and essay collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"african-trilogy\"><strong>African Trilogy<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Things Fall Apart (1958)<\/strong> \u2013 Concerns the struggle of Obi Okonkwo&#8217;s grandfather Okonkwo against the changes brought by the English; title taken from W.B. Yeats&#8217; poem The Second Coming<br>\u2022 <strong>No Longer at Ease (1960)<\/strong> \u2013 Story of Okonkwo&#8217;s grandson Obi Okonkwo, who leaves his village for a British education, secures a position with the Nigerian Civil Service in Lagos, where he finally succumbs to the prevalent practice of bribery and is caught<br>\u2022 <strong>Arrow of God (1964)<\/strong> \u2013 Centers on Ezeulu, the chief priest of several Igbo villages in colonial Nigeria, who confronts colonial powers and Christian missionaries in the 1920s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 <strong>A Man of the People (1966)<\/strong> \u2013 Story of the young and educated Odili, the narrator, and his conflict with Chief Nanga, his former teacher who enters a career in politics in an unnamed modern African country<br>\u2022 Anthills of the Savannah (1987) \u2013 Set in the fictional West African country of Kangan, where a Sandhurst-trained officer, Sam (His Excellency), has taken power following a military coup<br>\u2022 <strong>An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad&#8217;s Heart of Darkness (1975, essay) <\/strong>\u2013 Achebe accuses Joseph Conrad of being a thoroughgoing racist for depicting Africa as the other world <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022 Achebe has also written some children&#8217;s books <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>other sources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/553284\/the-african-trilogy-by-chinua-achebe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/553284\/the-african-trilogy-by-chinua-achebe\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/witcritic.com\/index.php\/types-of-literary-criticism\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"35\">Types of Literary Criticism<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/witcritic.com\/index.php\/what-is-indian-literature\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"455\">Indian Literature : An overview of great tradition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe, in full&nbsp;Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, (born November 16, 1930, Ogidi, Nigeria\u2014died March 21, 2013,&nbsp;Boston,&nbsp;Massachusetts, U.S.), Nigerian novelist 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