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1. THE BIOGRAPHY OF
CHINUA ACHEBE

2. Born 16 November 1930 as Albert
Chinualumogu Achebe.
A Nigerian novelist, poet, professor and critic
best known for his 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
southeaster Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school
and won scholarship for undergraduate studies.
Achebe has been called “ the father of modern
African writing”.

3. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian
Broadcasting Service (NBS) and soon moved to
metropolis of Lagos.
When the reign of Biafra broke away from
Nigeria in 1967, Achebe became a supporter of
Biafran independence and acted as ambassador
for the people of new nation
Since 2009, he has been the David and
Marianna Fisher Professor and Professor of
African Studies at Brown University in Providence,
Rhode Island United States.

4. Achebe's parents, Isaiah Okafo Achebe and Janet
Anaenechi Iloegbunam, were converts to the Protestant
Church Mission Society (CMS) in Nigeria.
Achebe's unabbreviated name, Chinualumogu (“May
God fight on my behlaf”), was a prayer for divine
protection and stability.
The Achebe Family had five other surviving childern,
named a similar fusion of traditional words relating to
their new religion: Frank Okwuofu, John Chukweameka
Ifeanyichukwu, Zinobia Uzoma, Augustine Nduka and
Grace Nwanneka.
Biography

5. Chinua was born Albert Chinualumogu in the Igbo
village of Ogidi on November 16,1930.
After the youngest daughter was born, the family moved
to Isaiah Achebe's ancestral town of Ogidi, in what is now
the state of Anambra.
His education was furthered by the collages his father
hung on the walls of their home, as well as almanacs and
numerous books- Including a prose adaptation of a
Midsummer Night's Dream (c.1590) and an Igbo of the
Pilgrim's Progress (1678).
Early Life

6. Education
In 1936, Achebe entered St Philips' Central School
One teacher described him as the student with the best
handwriting in class, and the best reading skills
Modelled on the British public school, and funded by the
colonial administration, Government College had been
established in 1929 to educate Nigeria's future elite.
Achebe was double-promoted in his first year,
completing the first two year's studies in one, and
spending only four years in secondary school, instead
of the standard five.

7. University
In 1948, in preparation for independence,Nigeria's first
university opened. Known as University College, (now
the University of Ibadan), it was an associate college of
the University of London
While at the University, Achebe wrote his first short
story, “In a Village Church”, which details of life in rural
Nigeria with Christian institution and icons, a style which
appears in many of his later works.
After the final examination at Ibadan in 1953, Achebe
was awarded a second class degree.

8. Since the sixties, Achebe has been doing more teaching and
lecturing and less fiction writing, although he has published books
for the young and has concentrated exclusively on educating them.
He also wrote Anthills Of The Savannah,which was finalist for the
Booker Prize in England in 1987. Much of his later writing since
seventies has been wrapped up in the political turmoil of Nigeria
which has undergone a series of upheavals and coup d' etats by
various political fractions.
In the sixties, Achebe was targeted for persecution by one
of the non-Igbo lead governments as a dissident and so he
fled with his family to Eastern, Nigeria which had declared
itself and independent state called Biafra. After a bloody civil
war, Biafra was defeated and Achebe exiled himself to
Europe and then America.

9. Achebe has received many honours, and his fame has spread not
only in Africa but all over common wealth, Europe and America. He
had been made a Fellow of the modern languages Association of
U.S.A. and has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the
Universities of Sterling and Southampton. He also won the coveted
Neil Gunn Fellowship awarded by the Scottish Arts Council.
He died on March 21, 2013, at age 82, in Boston, Massachusetts.

10. Themes
lAchebe's novels approach a variety of themes. In his
early writing depiction of Igbo culture itself is paramount.
lCulture and Colonialism - A prevalent theme in Achebe's
novels is the intersection of African tradition (particularly
Igbo varieties) and modernity, especially as embodied by
European colonialism. E.g. The Village of Umuofia in
Things Fall Apart, is violently shaken with internal division
when the white Christian missionaries arrive.
lMasculinity and femininity - gender roles of men and
women, as well as societies conception of the associated
concepts, are frequent themes in Achebe's writing.

11. List Of Works
●Novels
lThings Fall Apart (1958)
lNo Longer at Ease (1960)
lArrow of God (1964)
lAnthills of the Savannah (1987)
●Short Stories
lMarriage Is A private Affair (1952)
lDead Men's Path (1953)
lCivil Peace (1971)
lPoetry
lAnother Africa (1998)
lRefugee Mother and Child
lVultures
lEssay, Criticis, non-fiction and
political commentary
lThe Novelist as Teacher (1965)
lChildren Books
lThe Flute (1975)
lChike and the River (1966)

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