Achebe, Chinua
About Chinua Achebe
Biography (Encyclopædia Britannica)
Reviews
Idowu, Omoyele. "Things Fall Apart Turns 60." Mail & Guardian, 5 Oct. 2018
Cartwright, Justin. "Review of There Was a Country." The Guardian, 4 Aug. 2013
Evaristo, Bernardine. "The Education of a British Protected Child." The Independent, 5 Feb. 2010
Ascherson, Neal. "Anthills of the Savannah." The New York Review of Books, 3 Mar. 1988
Hutchinson, Shaun. "No Longer at Ease." The New Black Magazine, undated
Interviews
Solomon, Deborah. "Out of Africa." The New York Times, 26 Mar. 2010
Jayakrishna, Nandini. "Q & A with Chinua Achebe." The Brown Daily Herald, 11 Nov. 2009
Phillips, Caryl. "On Joseph Conrad." The Guardian, 22 Feb. 2003
Bacon, Katie. "An African Voice." The Atlantic, 2000
Brooks, Jerome. "The Art of Fiction." The Paris Review, no. 133, 1994
Rowell, Charles H. "An Interview With Chinua Achebe." Callaloo, vol. 13, no. 1, Winter 1990
Criticism
Das Sarkhel, Ranjana. Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe's Novels, 2018
Dyer, Unifier. "Nationalism in Dialogue: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani in Conversation with Chinua Achebe's Characters." Chinua Achebe's Legacy: Illuminations from Africa, Ogude (ed.), 2015
Olaluwa, Senayon. "Chinua Achebe: The Paradox of Exile beyond the Tropes of Migrancy." Chinua Achebe's Legacy: Illuminations from Africa, Ogude (ed.), 2015
Quayson, Ato. "Self-Writing and Existential Alienation in African Literature: Achebe's Arrow of God". Research in African Literatures, vol. 42, no. 2, 2011
Nesbitt, L. "Postcolonial Void: Achebe, Vassanji, Wa Thiong'o." New Black & African Writing: A Critical AnthologyVol. 1: Enugu, Nigeria, Smith and Emezue (eds.), 2009
Anyadike, Chima. “Duality and Resilience in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.” Philosophia Africana, vol. 10, no. 1, 2007
Mezu, Rose. "Women in Achebe's World." Womanist Theory and Research, vol. 1, no. 2, 2005
Collier, Gordon. "Dancing to My Father: Alterity and Identity in Cross-Cultural Experience." Crabtracks: Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English, Collier and Schulze-Engler (eds.), 2002
Murtuza, Miriam. "Things Fall Apart." English in Africa, vol. 28, no. 1, 2001
Works
Autobiography/Life Writing
There Was A Country (2012)
Home and Exile (2000)
Novels
Anthills of the Savannah (1988)
A Man of the People (1966)
Arrow of God (1964)
No Longer at Ease (1960)
Things Fall Apart (1958)
Children's and Young Adult's Books
Chike and River (1966)
Short Story Collections
African Short Stories (1984)
Girls at War and Other Stories (1972)
The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (1962)
Poetry Collections
Collected Poems (2004)
Aka Weta: An Anthology of Igbo Poetry (1982)
Don't Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial Poems for Christsofer Okigbo (1978)
Christmas at Biafra, and Other Poems (1973)
Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems (1971)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
"Dancing to My Father: Alterity and Identity in Cross-Cultural Experience." Crabtracks: Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English, Collier and Schulze-Engler (eds.), 2002
Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays, 1965 - 1987, (1988)
The Trouble With Nigeria (1984)
Morning Yet On Creation Day: Essays (1975)
Audio and Audiovisual Material
African Voices: Interview with Chinua Achebe, CNN. YouTube, 22 Mar. 2013
An Evening with Chinua Achebe. YouTube, 11 May 2009
Discussing Africa with Chinua Achebe, 50 Years After Things Fall Apart. YouTube, 27 May 2008