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Chinua Achebe
Standard Name: Achebe, Chinua
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Bessie Head | In the African section of the Berlin festival she met or re-met Chinua Achebe
, Wole Soyinka
, Lewis Nkosi
, and Dennis Brutus
. The only other woman invited, Ama Ata Aidoo
, had... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Meiling Jin | In the introduction to the book of poems that was her first publication, MJ
noted that poetry was a form of expression that comes easier to me than most others. This state of affairs was... |
| Literary responses | Buchi Emecheta | The Joys of Motherhood was a Book-of-the-Month Club
selection in 1979, and BE
received a Best British Writer's Award for it in 1980. |
Timeline
December 1905: A young British officer, Hugh Trenchard,...
National or international item
December 1905
A young British officer, Hugh Trenchard
, ordered the massacre of inhabitants of the village of Ahiara in southern Nigeria in retaliation for the killing of another officer.
By June 1958: The Nigerian Chinua Achebe published his...
Writing climate item
By June 1958
The Nigerian Chinua Achebe
published his first and still most famous novel, Things Fall Apart (titled from W. B. Yeats
).
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