Chinua Achebe

by Nahem Yousaf

This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with being the key progenitor of an African literary tradition and his five novels read as tracing the national narrative of Nigeria. Achebe depicts precolonial societies disturbed by British colonization, in the 1890s...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 074630885X
• ISBN13: 9780746308851
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 128 Pages