Chinua Achebe: Teacher of Light

by Tijan M. Sallah and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Book Overview

One of the world's leading novelists and the man who launched the development of an entire continent's literature, Chinua Achebe is as renowned for his 1958 debut, Things Fall Apart, the first book to offer an answer to European caricatures of African characters, as he is for his subsequent life work, which includes Anthills of the Savannah among numerous others. This biography explores Achebe's writing as well as his early life in colonial Nigeria,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1592210325
• ISBN13: 9781592210329
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.