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Chinua Achebe Birth, Achievement and Death

Chinua Achebe, born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. Hewas best known for his first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and began writing stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He gained worldwide attention for Things Fall Apart in the late 1950s; his later novels include No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Achebe's novels focus on the traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash of Western and traditional African values during and after the colonial era. His style relies heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory. He also published a number of short stories, children's books, and essay collections. From 2009 until his death, he served as a professor at Brown University in the United States. List of Works & Novels

-Things Fall Apart (1958)

-No Longer at Ease (1960) -Arrow of God (1964) -A Man of the People (1966) -Anthills of the Savannah (1987) Short stories -Marriage Is A Private Affair (1952)

-Dead Men's Path (1953)

-The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (1953)

-Civil Peace (1971)

-Girls at War and Other Stories (including "Vengeful Creditor") (1973) -African Short Stories (editor, with C.L. Innes)(1985) -Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (editor, with C.L. Innes) (1992) -The Voter Poetry -Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems (1971) (published in the US as Christmas at Biafra, and Other Poems, 1973) -Don't let him die: An anthology of memorial poems for Christopher Okigbo (editor, with Dubem Okafor) (1978) -Another Africa (1998) -Collected Poems Carcanet Press (2005) -Refugee Mother And Child -Vultures Essays, criticism, non-fiction and political commentary

-The Novelist as Teacher (1965)

- also in Hopes and Impediments -An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (1975) also in Hopes and Impediments -Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975)

-The Trouble With Nigeria (1984) -Hopes and Impediments (1988) -Home and Exile (2000)

-Education of a British protected Child (6 October 2009)

-There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra, (11 October 2012 )

Children's books -Chike and the River (1966) -How the Leopard Got His Claws (with John Iroaganachi) (1972) -The Flute (1975) -The Drum (1978) Legacy Achebe has been called "the father of modern African writing", and many books and essays have been written about his work over the past fifty years. In 1992 he became the first living writer to be represented in the Everyman's Library collection published by Alfred A. Knopf. His 60th birthday was celebrated at the University of Nigeria by "an international Who's Who in African Literature". One observer noted: "Nothing like it had ever happened before in African literature anywhere on the continent. Many writers of succeeding generations[who ?] view his work as having paved the way for their efforts. In 1982 Achebe was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Kent. At the ceremony, professor Robert Gibson said that the Nigerian writer "is now revered as Master by the younger generation of African writers and it is to him they regularly turn for counsel and inspiration. Even outside of Africa, his impact resonates strongly in literary circles. Novelist Margaret Atwood called him "a magical writer – one of the greatest of the twentieth century". Poet Maya Angelou lauded Things Fall Apart as a book wherein "all readers meet their brothers, sisters, parents and friends and themselves along Nigerian roads". Nelson Mandela, recalling his time as a political prisoner, once referred to Achebe as a writer "in whose company the prison walls fell down. Achebe is the recipient of over 30 honorary degrees from universities in England, Scotland, Canada, South Africa, Nigeria and the United States, including Dartmouth College, Harvard, and Brown University. He has been awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, an Honorary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1982), a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002), the Nigerian National Order of Merit (Nigeria's highest honour for academic work), the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. The Man Booker International Prize 2007 and the 2010 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize are two of the more recent accolades Achebe has received. Chinua Achebe twice refused the Nigerian honour Commander of the Federal Republic, in 2004 and 2011, saying: "I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra where a small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn my homeland into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. I am appalled by the brazenness of this clique and the silence, if not connivance, of the Presidency." www.9aijahouse.blogspot.com[1]