Chinua
Achebe Biography / Early Life
Short
Critical Evaluation of His Major Works
Summary
and Critical Analysis
Analysis of Major Characters
Biography/Early
Life:
Chinua
Achebe, poet and novelist, is one the most important living African writers. He
is considered one of the most original literary artists currently writing in
English.
Born
Albert Chinualumogo Achebe, Chinua Achebe was raised by Christian outreaching
parents in the large village Ogidi, in Igboland, Eastern Nigeria. He received
early education in English but grew up surrounded by the complex fusion of Igbo
traditions and the colonial legacy. He studied literature and medicine at The University of Ibadan after graduating, He went to work for the Nigerian
Broadcasting Company in Lagos. Thing Fall Apart (1985) was his first novel. It
has been converted into in any event forty-five dialects and has sold 8,000,000
duplicates worldwide.
Beginning
during the 1950s, Achebe was fundamental to another Nigerian scholarly development
that drew on the oral traditions of Nigeria's indigenous tribes. Despite the
fact that Achebe writes in English, he endeavours to join Igbo jargon and
narratives. Different books include: No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God
(1964), and A Man of the people (1966).
Achebe
left his career in radio in 1966, during the national unrest and violence that
led to the Biafran War. He narrowly escaped harm at the hands of soldiers who
believed that his novel, A Man of the People implicated him in the country's
first military coup. He began an academic career the next year, he co-founded a
publishing company with Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo. In 1971, he became an
editor for Okike, a prestigious Nigerian literary magazine. He founded lwa ndi
Ibo in 1984; this bilingual publication was dedicated to Igbo cultural life. He
was made Emeritus Professor at the University of Nigeria in 1985. He has taught
at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Connecticut, and he
has received over twenty honorary doctorates form year. Universities around the
world. He received Nigeria's highest honour for intellectual achievement, the
Nigerian National Merit Award, in 1987. His novel Anthills of Savannah was
shortlisted for the Booker McConnell Prize that same year.
Achebe
has been active in Nigerian politics since the 1960s. A considerable lot of his
books manage the social and political issues confronting his nation, including
the difficulty of the post-colonial legacy.