Chinua+Achebe

Chinua Achebe Early Life (By Jake Ecker) [] <- Link for info
 * Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930.
 * His name, Chinualumogu, means "May God fight on my behalf".
 * He was raised in Ogidi, which is an Igbo village.
 * Story-telling was important to Igbo culture, which is why Chinua was motivated to become a writer.
 * He went to St. Philips Central School, where he was moved to advanced classes because of his great handwriting and literacy.
 * Chinua then made it into Government College, a highly prestigious Nigerian college. Here, he exceeded, being promoted and moving faster than any other student there.
 * He then attended Nigeria's first university, University College, where he again flourished and studied English, history and theology.
 * While in college, he started writing short stories, which addressed philosophy, tradition, and modernity.
 * After graduating with a second-class degree, Chinua returned to Ogibi.

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Chinua Achebe (Stephen Lee)
 *  Chinua Achebe wrote “Things Fall Apart” which depicts a world in which there is war, violence, and suffering but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual and social coherence.
 *  In “Things Fall Apart” he creates a story of Nigerian tribal life before and after colonialism.
 *  Chinua Achebe uses language to expose and combat the propoganda created by African polticians to manipulate their people.
 * “Things Fall Apart” showed how the Western Influences at the time in Ibo African Society were in no way beneficial.
 * In 1971 Chinua Achebe became founding editor of Okike, which one of Africa's most influential literary magazines.
 * Achebe was involved in a car accident that paralyzed him from the waist down for the rest of his life.
 * Achebe stance on politics is that he thinks that the leaders of Nigeria are not willing to rise to responsibility and challenge which means they lack in leadership.
 * Achebe also states that the Nigerian politics have changed, but they have become worse because of the lack of leadership in the politics.
 *  "Things Fall Apart" has been translated in over 50 different languages.
 *  Chinua Achebe has received 30 honorary degrees and has been rewarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

@http://aalbc.com/authors/chinua.htm @http://www.postcolonialweb.org/achebe/achebeov.html [] Link for sources



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