Author: Chinua Achebe

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil...

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lif...

Beautifully written yet highly controversial, An Image of Africa asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction t...

Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who 'opened the magic casements of African fiction' for an inte...

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly...

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