Chinua Achebe Research

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Chinua Achebe Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian Novelist, Poet, Professor and Critic. Chinua Achebe was born in the Igbo town of Ogidi in south-eastern Nigeria, on the 16th November 1930 (now 80). Achebe had won a scholarship for undergraduate studies and became a student of the first University in Nigeria. There Achebe became fascinated with world religions and traditional African culture and started to write stories. After graduation Chinua Achebe worked for the Nigerian broadcasting and moved to the metropolis of Lagos where he continued to write. Achebe is a Nigerian writer whose role as a socially committed storyteller is drawn from his ethnic Igbo traditions. He has written a number of novels, short stories, poems, essays, and articles, gaining worldwide critical acclaim and popular success. His first novel Things Fall Apart, first published in 1958, was a big best seller selling millions of copies and has been translated into numerous languages. Chinua Achebe remains the most read African author in the world. In addition to his many awards for his writing, including the 1972 Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Achebe has received more than twenty honorary doctorates from universities around the world. Like for many African writers for Achebe the primary focus has been an African identity. Through his works, Achebe expresses a powerful cry for an end to worldwide oppression. In an autobiographical comment published in Contemporary Novelists, he described himself as “a political writer.” He explained that his politics are “concerned with universal human communication across racial and cultural boundaries as a means of fostering respect. In his fiction, essays, criticism, poetry, and even children’s literature, unlike the West, Achebe writes truly of his country. Achebe includes in his writing African traditions, African culture, old
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