'Father of African Literature' Tells of His Defining Experience
THE BLAGGER'S GUIDE TO ... CHINUA ACHEBE All you need to know about the hottest literary topic of the week
More than 50 years after he first made his mark with the 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's There Was a Country was published last week by Allen Lane (20). This long-awaited memoir of his experiences of the 1967-1970 Biafran war is his account of coming of age during one of the 20th century's greatest humanitarian disasters. Though Achebe is known as the "father of modern African literature", and made his name writing about the history of Nigeria, this is the first time that he has directly addressed in his writing the civil war which was the defining …
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Article title: 'Father of African Literature' Tells of His Defining Experience.
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Newspaper title: The Independent on Sunday (London, England).
Publication date: October 7, 2012.
Page number: 68.
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