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I Chinua Achebe ( / ˈ tʃ ɪ n w ɑː ə ˈ tʃ ɛ b eɪ /, a mibait a Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, 16 Noviembre 1930 – 21 Marzo 2013) metung yang Nigerian a nobelista, poeta, propesor, ampong kritiku.Pikabalwan yang dili king kayang mumunang nobela ampong obra maestra, ing Things Fall Apart ('Misasalbag la reng Sabla') (1958), a yang babasan dang diling libru king makabayung literaturang. Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist and author of ‘Things Fall Apart,’ a work that in part led to his being called the ‘patriarch of the African novel.’ Who Was Chinua Achebe? Born in Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe made a splash with the publication of his first novel, Things Fall Apart, in 1958. Albert Chinualumogo Achebe known as Chinua Achebe is one living African writer widely acclaimed for his work in English Literature. Born to Christian evangelical parents he was raised in a town Ogidi,in Igboland, in Eastern Nigeria.
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Overview (3)
Born | in Ogidi, Nigeria |
Died | in Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
Birth Name | Albert Chinualumogu Achebe |
Mini Bio (1)
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Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria as Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. He was a writer, known for Things Fall Apart (1971), Things Fall Apart (1987) and History of the Negro People (1965). He was married to Christine Chinwe Okoli. He died on March 21, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Spouse (1)
Chinua Achebe Born
Christine Chinwe Okoli | (10 September 1961 - 21 March 2013) ( his death) ( 4 children) |
Trivia (4)
Emeritus professor of English at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
In February 2009, he visited Nigeria for only the second time in 20 years, to speak at a festival of his ethnic group, the Igbo people. He received a hero's welcome, with huge throngs greeting him at the Abuja airport and following him around the country.
A car accident in 1990 paralyzed him from the waist down. Since then, he has lived in the US because his medical needs cannot be met in Nigeria.
He began writing in the 1950s, at a time when many African nations were becoming independent of British and French colonial rule. He felt that Africa's stories were being written by outsiders.
Personal Quotes (3)
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
What has consistently escaped most Nigerians in this entire travesty is the fact that mediocrity destroys the very fabric of a country as surely as a war - ushering in all sorts of banality, ineptitude, corruption and debauchery.
Chinua Achebe Biography Scholarly Articles
[on the impact of the literature he encountered when being educated in British-style schools] I did not see myself as an African in those books. I took sides with the white men against the savages. The white man was good and reasonable and smart and courageous. The savages arrayed against him were sinister and stupid, never anything higher than cunning. I hated their guts. [But later I realized] these writers had pulled a fast one on me! I was not on Marlowe's boat steaming up the Congo in 'Heart of Darkness'. Rather, I was one of those unattractive beings jumping up and down on the riverbank, making horrid faces.
Chinua Achebe Biography Summary
This helped him master the subtle nuances between written and spoken language, a skill that helped him later to write realistic dialogue. In 1956, Achebe was chosen for training in London at a staff school run by the British Broadcast Corporation (BBC) (Chinua pars 1). His first trip out of Nigeria was to advance his technical production skill. In the same year Things fall apart was published, Achebe got promoted at the NBS and put in charge of network’s eastern region coverage (Achebe par 5). He to moved Enugu and began work on his administrative duties. It was there he met a woman named Christie Okoli, who had grown up in the area and joined the NBS staff when he arrived (Achebe par 5). They first conversed when she brought to his attention a pay discrepancy; a friend of hers found that, although they had been hired simultaneously, Christie had been rated lower and offered a lower wage (Achebe pars 5). She was sent to the hospital for an appendectomy soon afterwards, she was pleasantly surprised when Achebe visited her with gifts and magazines (Achebe pars 6). Achebe and Okoli grew closer in the following years, and on September 10, 1961 were married in the Chapel of Resurrection on the campus of the University of Ibadan. Christie Achebe has described their marriage as one of trust and mutual understanding; some tension arose early in their union, due to conflicts about