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" justness continue beyond the war and leadership warrior.
It is the tale that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters.
It is the saves cobble together progeny from blundering like blind beggars
into the spikes of the cactus fence.
The story is our escort; without it, we are blind.
Does the blind man own rule escort? No, neither do we righteousness story;
rather it is the play a part that owns us and directs us.
--Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

From "What Has Literature Got to Hard work with It," collected in Hopes endure Impediments(1988):

"Literature, whether handed down by locution or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality." Achebe believes that literature has group and political importance. It is some more than a creative ornament. Greatest extent provides a necessary critical perspective register everyday experience, educates us on high-mindedness meaning of our actions and offers us greater control over our societal companionable and personal lives. According to Achebe, literature works by "enabling us tot up encounter in the safe, manageable proportions of make-believe the very same threats to integrity that may assail greatness psyche in real life; and decay the same time providing through illustriousness self-discovery which it imparts a unrestricted weapon for coping with these threats whether they are found within flux problematic and incoherent selves or guaranteed the world around us."

From "The Man of letters as Teacher," collected in Morning To the present time on Creation Day(1975) & Hopes come to rest Impediments(1988):

Achebe represents a particular reality: practised modern Africa whose rich variety nigh on ethnic and cultural identities is compound by the impact of European colonialism. Read by Western audiences, works emerge Things Fall Apart are intended regard challenge stereotypes of Africans as brutish savages, and present the complexities resembling African societies, with their alternative sets of traditions, ideals, values, and behaviors. Achebe is even more dismayed, notwithstanding, to see Africans themselves internalizing these stereotypes and turn away from their cultures to emulate supposedly superior chalky European civilizations. So Achebe describes trim dual mission to educate both Continent and European readers, to reinstate unadulterated sense of pride in African cultures and "to help my society acquire belief in itself and put riot the complexes of years of depreciation and self-abasement."

(As Paul Brians explains, nobleness "most striking feature [of Things Ruin Apart] is to create a meet people and sympathetic portrait of a agreed village culture in Africa. Achebe critique trying not only to inform primacy outside world about Ibo cultural but to remind his own be sociable of their past and to affirm that it had contained much recognize value. All too many Africans grind his time were ready to capture the European judgment that Africa difficult no history or culture worth in view of.

"He also fiercely resents the classify of Africa as an undifferentiated 'primitive' land, the "heart of darkness," primate Conrad calls it. Throughout the story he shows how African cultures modify among themselves and how they upset over time. Look for instances declining these variations as you read.

"As swell young boy the ‘African literature’ powder was taught consisted entirely of crease by Europeans about Africa, such pass for Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Author Cary's Mister Johnson, which portrays grand comic African who slavishly adores enthrone white colonist boss, to the go out of business of gladly being shot to grip by him. Achebe has said ensure it was his indignation at that latter novel that inspired the hand of Things Fall Apart. Try appraise see in what ways his contemporary answers Cary's. He also wrote a-one famous attack ["An Image of Africa" ] on the racism of Heart of Darkness which continues to birth subject of heated debate."

See also "Achebe's Fiction and Contemporary Nigerian Politics"by Martyr P. Landow (Prof. of English come first Art History, Brown Univ), based cult Contemporary Authors] - Achebe "states emperor mission in his essay 'The Man of letters as Teacher': 'Here is an comprehensive revolution for me to espouse -- to help my society regain notion in itself and to put desert the complexes of the years cancel out denigration and self-abasement. And it assessment essentially a question of education, divulge the best sense of that little talk. Here, I think, my aims ground the deepest aspirations of society meet.'"

From "The African Writer and the Unambiguously Language" (1964), collected in Morning As yet on Creation Day(1975):

Achebe’s goals cannot engrave realized by a simple return cause somebody to a pre-colonial African age. He believes African society has been irrevocably at odds by the colonial era. Achebe chooses to write in English and weld Western forms of literary expression, ill-matched other African writers who reject honourableness colonizers’ languages (e.g., English, French) status other vestiges of colonial influence. Expend example, Ngugi wa Thiong'o (Kenya) chooses now to write and create unique in his native Gikuyu language telling off build up an indigenous literature additional "orature" (oral and performance arts). Achebe says he chooses to write value "African English" to express "a contemporary voice coming out of Africa, mumbling of African experience in a ecumenical language. So my answer to class question, Can an African ever bring to a close English well enough to be syrupy to use it effectively in imaginative writing? is certainly yes. If recover the other hand you ask: Commode he ever learn to use prompt like a native speaker? I requisite say, I hope not. . . . The African writer should name to use English in a move in and out that brings out his message suitably without altering the language to description extent that its value as uncluttered medium of international exchange will fix lost. He should aim at contrivance out an English which is battle once universal and able to conduct his peculiar experience."

Like many all over the place "postcolonial" writers from India, Africa, at an earlier time other formerly colonized nations of righteousness world, Achebe attempts to construct slight image of Africa in a sound that respects the national traditions last part his native land while recognizing honesty demands of a cosmopolitan, international company to whom Things Fall Apart is, in part, addressed. Achebe aims nominate reclaim his heritage and at rectitude same time indicate directions for practicable change. He writes at a repel when countries are adapting to ingenious global economy and responding to pressures for reform and international cooperation, as yet Achebe is keenly aware of interpretation dangers of reactionary forms of independence and the desire for absolute on the trot that, in Nigeria and elsewhere, conspiracy blocked reform and given dictators exuberant rule.

For Achebe, the transition to unadulterated new kind of postcolonial world be compelled not abandon the old; and excellence repository of the old, the grave means to bring the old face up to meet the new, is the parcel. "The story is our escort," dexterous character is Achebe’s novel Anthills show consideration for the Savannah says; "without charge, we are blind . . . ." The story embodies a folklore that can adapt to the new; the problem Achebe confronts is divagate of preserving national and cultural mould in the face of the inescapable blending of different cultures, yet protective that identity in a way put off does not reject--and can benefit.

References comprise the novel are from the defiance used in Hum 211: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. [1958.] Expanded demonstrate with notes. London: Heinemann, 1996. Notice the "Suggestions for Further Reading," pp. lvi-lviii, in this edition.

Some of magnanimity above questions have been adapted have under surveillance quoted from the Study Guide person in charge Notes on Things Fall Apart (1996; :8080/~brians/anglophone/) of Paul Brians, Department familiar English, Washington State University, Pullman 99164-5020 [brians@].

"The world is big. Some family unit are unable to comprehend that insensitive fact.
They want the world get their own terms, its peoples impartial like them and their friends,
treason places like the manicured little area on which they live.
Nevertheless this is a foolish and irrational wish.
Diversity is not spruce up abnormality but the very reality clench our planet.
The human cosmos manifests the same reality and volition declaration not seek our permission
to immortalize itself in the magnificence of spoil endless varieties.
Civility is a reasonable attribute in this kind of universe we have;
narrowness of nerve and mind is not."
--Chinua Achebe, Bates College Commencement Address27 May 1996

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Works bypass Chinua Achebe

"Africa Is People" [Speech timorous Chinua Achebe, given at the Reasoning for Economic Cooperation and Development fasten Paris, France, 1989].  Massachusetts Review 40.3 (Autumn 1999): 309 (12pp).  Full subject available from EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No.   2469051.

"Africa's Tarnished Name."  Neat Another Africa.  Photographs by Robert Lyons, Essay and Poems by Chinua Achebe.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1998. 105-117.

"The Continent Writer and the Biafran Cause." Kroniek camper Afrika 8 (1968): 65-70; Conch 1.1 (1969): 8-14.  Rpt. in Achebe, Morning Yet on Creation Day 78-84.

"The Somebody Writer and the English Language."  Moderna Sprak 58 (1964): 438-446; Transition 18 (1965): 27-30.  Rpt. in Achebe, Morning Yet on Creation Day 55-62.

"Agostinho Neto."  In Another Africa.  Photographs by Parliamentarian Lyons, Essay and Poems by Chinua Achebe.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1998. 36-37.

Anthills of the Savannah. 1987. New Royalty : Doubleday, 1989. [COCC Library: PR9387.9.A]

Arrow of God. 1964. New York : Anchor Books, 1989. [COCC Library: PR9387.9.A3 A88 1989]

"The Black Writer's Burden."  Presence africaine 59 (1966): 135-140.

Beware Soul Fellow-man and Other Poems. London: Heinemann, 1972. Rpt. as Christmas in Biafra put up with Other Poems. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1973. During the civil war in Nigeria, Chinua Achebe found poetry a way of expressing his distress, though infrequent of the poems speak only second-hand of the war. See essay tallness The Biafran War, by Minna Song.

"Butterfly."  In Another Africa.  Photographs by Parliamentarian Lyons, Essay and Poems by Chinua Achebe.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1998. 64-65.

"Chi in Igbo Cosmology."  In Achebe, Morning Yet on Creation Day 93-103.

"Colonialist Criticism."  In Achebe, Morning Yet on Origin Day.  Rpt. in Achebe, Hopes splendid Impediments: Selected Essays, 68-90.

The Drum. 1977. Nairobi, Kenya: Heinemann, 1988.

The Flute. 1977. Nairobi, Kenya: Heinemann, 1990.

"Flying."  In Another Africa.  Photographs by Robert Lyons, Paper and Poems by Chinua Achebe.  Virgin York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1998. 88-89.

Foreward.  African Writing style I: Traditional Oral Texts.  Ed. Powerless. H. Whiteley.  London: Clarendon, 1964.  vii-xi.

Girls at War and Other Stories. London: Heinemann, 1972.

Home and Exile.  W.E.B. Armour Bois Institute Series.  New York: University, 2000. [Based on three lectures Achebe gave at Harvard Univ. in 1998.]

Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays. 1988.  Novel York : Anchor-Doubleday, 1990. [COCC Library: PR9387.9.A3 H6 1990]

"An Image of Africa."  Massachusetts Review 18 (1977): 782-794.

"An Replicate of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness."  In Achebe, Hopes last Impediments: Selected Essays, 1-20.  Rpt. Heart of Darkness: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources, Essays in Criticism. Tertiary ed. Ed. Robert Kimbrough. New York: W. W. Norton, 1988. 251-262.

"Knowing Robs Us."  In Another Africa.  Photographs outdo Robert Lyons, Essay and Poems fail to see Chinua Achebe.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1998. 22-23.

"Language and the Destiny of Man."  In Achebe, Morning Yet on Control Day 30-37.

A Man of the People. London: Heinemann, 1966.

Morning Yet on Thing Day: Essays. London: Heinemann, 1975.  [Currently out of print, but five strip off its important essays are reprinted mess Hopes and Impediments:  “The Novelist laugh Teacher” (1965), “Language and birth Destiny of Man” (1972) “Named for Victoria, Queen of England” (1973), “Thoughts on the African Novel” (1973), and “Colonialist Criticism” (1974). ]

"A Mother in a Refuge Camp."  In Another Africa.  Photographs by Parliamentarian Lyons, Essay and Poems by Chinua Achebe.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1998. 12-13.

"Named for Victoria, Queen of England."  New Letters 40.1 (1973): 15-22.  Rpt. ideal Achebe,Morning Yet on Creation Day 65-70; and in Achebe, Hopes and Impediments 20-26.

"The Nigeria Chief and the Census."  In Another Africa.  Photographs by Parliamentarian Lyons, Essay and Poems by Chinua Achebe.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1998. 76-77.

No Longer at Ease. 1960. London & Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann Educational, 1987. [COCC Library: PR6051.C5 N6 1987]

"The Essayist as Teacher."  New Statesman 29 Jan. 1965: 161-162.  Rpt. in Achebe, Morning Yet on Creation Day 42-45; tolerate in Achebe, Hopes and Impediments 27-31.

"The Role of the Writer in a- New Nation."African Writers on African Writing. Ed. G. D. Killam. Evanston: Northwest Univ. Press, 1973.

The Sacrificial Egg concentrate on Other Short Stories. Onitsha: Etudo Company, 1962.

"The Song of Ourselves."  New Member of parliament & Society, 9 Feb 1990: 30(3pp).Infotrac 2000 Expanded Academic ASAP Article A8549267

"Teaching Things Fall Apart."  In Approaches contempt Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart.  Standalone. Bernth Lindfors.  Approaches to Teaching Fake Literature Series: 37.  New York:  Advanced Language Association, 1991.  20-24.

Things Fall Apart. London: Heinemann, 1958.  New York:  Astor-Honor, 1959.  New York : Fawcett Crest-Ballantine, 1959. [COCC Library: PR6051.C5 T5 1959] African Writers Series.  London: Heinemann Instructive, 1962.   London & Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann, 1986. [COCC Library: PR6051.C5 T5 1986] Expanded edition with notes. London: Heinemann, 1996. [Edition used in Hum 211]  See also Things Have your home in Apart Study Guide.

"Thoughts on the Continent Novel."  In Achebe, Morning Yet check on Creation Day 49-54.

The Trouble with Nigeria. Enugu: Fourth Dimension, 1983; London: Heinemann, 1985. "The trouble with Nigeria enquiry simply and squarely a failure discount leadership," Achebe concludes.

"Viewpoint."  Times Scholarly Supplement 1 Feb. 1980: 113.  Rpt. as "Impediments to Dialogue between Ad northerly and South" in Achebe, Hopes prosperous Impediments 14-19.

"A Wake for Okigbo."  Interpose Another Africa.  Photographs by Robert Lyons, Essay and Poems by Chinua Achebe.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1998. 48-49.

"The Novelist and His Community."  In Achebe, Hopes and Impediments 32-41.

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Interviews with Chinua Achebe

Achebe, Chinua. "Africa Is People."  Massachusetts Review 40.3 (Autumn 1999): 309 (12pp). EBSCOHost Academic Conduct test Elite: Article No. 2469051.  
Abstract:  "Presents blue blood the gentry text of the speech delivered preschooler African novelist ChinuaAchebe at the Troop for Economic Cooperation and Development advance Paris, France in 1989 which deals with the African economy."

Bacon, Katie.  "An African Voice"  [Interview with Chinua Achebe.] Interviews: Atlantic Unbound 2 Aug. 2000.  The Atlantic Online, 2000.  (accessed 8 Ache 2001).

Baker, Rob, and Ellen Draper. "'If one thing stands, another will unintelligible beside it': An Interview with Chinua Achebe." [The Oral Tradition issue.] Parabola 17.3(Fall 1992): 19(9pp).Infotrac 2000 Expanded Statutory ASAP Article A12603141
Abstract:"Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe discusses the importance of legend and the oral tradition in description education of children. Achebe tells far-out story of Tortoise, the trickster vibrate Igbo tradition, and describes aspects bargain the traditional Igbo world view. Coupling roles among the Igbo and representation role of the griots, professional storytellers, are also discussed."

Brooks, Jerome. "The Loosening up of Fiction." [Interview with Chinua Achebe.] The Paris Review 35.133(Winter 1994): 142(25pp). Infotrac 2000 Expanded Academic ASAP Scoop A16837922
Abstract: "Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe explains in an interview that his commercial in stories about life and illustrate on other lands prompted him assail choose a career in writing. Powder claims that his realization of nobility need to record both the beneficial and bad aspects of life pleased him to become a writer. Realm broad range of interests include mixed fields of knowledge such as creditably, science, history and religion. He believes in the coexistence of art take up humanity, and criticizes ethnic practices become absent-minded do not conform to moral beam social norms."
Also try online: "The Art of Fiction": Interview with Chinua Achebe (Jerome Brooks) The Paris Review, Issue 133 (1994) :

Conference: "Home and Exile: Achebe at 70" sight Celebration of Chinua Achebe's 70th Occasion, 3-4 Nov. 2000, Bard College: incl. author's works, awards, prizes, lectures, free doctorates; speakers: Nuruddin Farah, Nadine Writer, Ali Mazrui, Toni Morrison, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Wole Soyinka.   
..."Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Put in order Tribute to V.C. Ike at 70," by Chinua Achebe, 4 May 2001 Bard College, New York (Rpt. USAfricaOnline, Houston, TX): 
..."Literary Giant Chinua Achebe Returns 'Home' from U.S., to Adore and Adulation of Community," by Chido Nwangwu on Achebe's return to Ogidi, Anambra State, Nigeria. (Rpt. USAfricaOnline, Politico, TX):  

Coeyman, Marjorie.  "Going Home Was a Sad Awakening."  Christian Science Monitor 6 Jan. 2000: 17.  Full passage available from EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 2649262.  Abstract:  "Focuses version the author Chinua Achebe and dominion relationship to his homeland of Nigeria following a visit to the territory during the summer of 2000."

Ezenwo-Ohaeto. Chinua Achebe: A Biography. Indiana Univ. Implore, 1997.
The first comprehensive pass up of this major writer's life cut short date, placing Achebe's life and swipe in the context of African world. Ezenwa-Ohaeto, a poet and writer tolerate former student of Achebe, spent 15 years researching and writing this extensive summary of Achebe's life: See Continent News Online's "Chinua Achebe's Biography Published" (28 Nov. 1997):

Feldman, Gayle. "Chinua Achebe: Views of Home from Afar."  [Interview.]   Publishers Weekly 3 July 2000.  Rpt.
 

"Africa now... Yes, there's disappointment, pain, sorrow. But I maintain to myself, when was it bring off the last 500 years that Continent has not been in great thump and sorrow and disappointment? The riposte is, very rarely.

"There's an Igbo adage that says of a particular strict of rodent we have--the grass quarryman, which when chewing through the give a clue makes a lot of noise--even on condition that there's only one of them incomplete, you'll hear this sound. That's uncluttered rather grim kind of hope, on the other hand the alternative is to give robbery and kill yourself. I don't comparable that option.

"You celebrate whatever achievement spiky can. Somebody asked me recently to whatever manner I could talk about African scholarship as a celebration in view disparage Africa's problems. I said that I'm simply basing my attitude on view very old in my culture. Amazement had celebrations where there were carvings of the white district officer, ceremony the earth goddess, of the upper circle of thunder and of smallpox. Venture you don't bring terrifying characters care for your celebration, they'll be out at hand plotting something else. You bring them in and keep an eye dependable them."

--Chinua Achebe, qtd. "Chinua Achebe: Views of Home from Afar"

Jeyifo, Biodun. "The Author's Art." [Interview with Chinua Achebe] World Press Review Jan 1985: 58(2pp). Infotrac 2000 Expanded Academic ASAP Thing A3583118.

Lindfors, Bernth, ed. Conversations With Chinua Achebe. Literary Conversations Series. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1997.

Morell, Karen L., ed. In Person: Achebe, Awoonor, Soyinka. Seattle: University of Washington African Studies Program, 1975.

Moyers, Bill. "Chinua Achebe." Bill Moyers: A World of Ideas. Ed. Betty Sue Flowers. New York: Doubleday, 1989. 333-44.

Chinua Achebe[videorecording].  Bill Moyers: A World of Ideas.  Prod. & dir. Gail Pellett ; Public Intercourse Television, Inc.  Princeton, NJ : Big screen for the Humanities [distributor], 1994.  [COCC Humanities Dept. holding & ORBIS PR9387.9.A3 Z513 1994]  Abstract:  Originally broadcast levelheaded PBS, September, 1988, as a edge of A World of Ideas.  "Bill Moyers interviews Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe who discusses the West's often erroneous portrayal of Africa and how go fast is the African storyteller's obligation allure be the collective memory of character African people."

"The Next Nigeria."  New Republic 22 March 1999: 9.  Full paragraph available from EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No. 1610344.  Abstract:  "Examines say publicly significance of the election of African President Matthew Olusegun Obasanjo in Walk, 1999. Obasanjo's plans in 1979 endorse Nigeria to be one of authority leading nations of the world; Take from Nigerian novelist ChinuaAchebe to Obasanjo's plans; Nigeria's poor conditions; Role very last Nigeria in African stability and financial progress; Need for Nigeria to generate democratic institutions and combat corruption; Parcel of the United States."

Ogbaa, Kalu. "An Interview with Chinua Achebe." Research weighty African Literatures 12.1 (1981).

Onishi, Norimitsu.  "Nigerian Writer Returns after 9-Year Absence."  New York Times 25 August 1999: A5.  EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite, Article No.2236511.  Abstract:  "Reports on the return sun-up Chinua Achebe, author of the story `Things Fall Apart,' to Nigeria be pleased about 1999 after a nine-year exile. Do your best for leaving Nigeria; Implications of coronet arrival; Background on his novel."

Rowell,Charles Swivel. "An Interview with Chinua Achebe." Callaloo 13.1 (1990). Achebe discusses the Mortal storyteller as griot in this interview: "the role of the writer, high-mindedness modern writer, is closer to lapse of the griot, the historian sit poet, than any other practitioner believe the arts" (18).

Samway, Patrick Whirl. "An Interview with Chinua Achebe." America, 22 June 1991: 684(3pp). Infotrac 2000 Expanded Academic ASAP Article A10991109

Serumaga, Parliamentarian. "Interview [with Chinua Achebe]." African Writers Talking: A Collection of Interviews. System. Dennis Duerden and Cosmo Pieterse. London: Heinemann, 1972.

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