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There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra (2012)

Part of me hopes that this account is biased and inaccurate, because I don't want the events to be true, I want the Igbo tribe and Biafra people to have provoked the horrible way they were treated so I can feel less sickened by what I learned happened.This book is an account of the failed Biafran...

There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra (2012) by Chinua Achebe
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Things Fall Apart (1994)

أفريقيا الساحرة القارة السمراء ، المهضوم حقها فنياً وأدبياً يخرج منها عمل أدبى من أجمل ماقرأت لعل أجمل ما ميّز نجيب محفوظ ، وجعله على قمة الكُتّاب المصريين والعرب أجمعين، وجعله واحد من أعلام الكتابة فى العالم ، هو قدرته الساحرة على رسم صورة المجتمع المصرى والحارة المصرية بكل تفاصيلها وهذا مافعله...

Things Fall Apart (1994) by Chinua Achebe
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No Longer at Ease (1994)

A village African from Nigeria is sent to University in England after his entire village pools their resources for his tuition. He comes back a bit angry and quite a lot determined to succeed without succumbing to the corruption and commonplace bribery which allows Nigerian society to function i...

No Longer at Ease (1994) by Chinua Achebe
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A Man of the People (1988)

Achebe's Man of the People Notes, Discussion and Summary from my For Unofficial Use Only BlogThis novel takes place in 1964 examines the institutions of Nigeria. Coming out of colonial times, the people have no sense of taxes or being taxed, especially the farmers (because the tax is just being w...

A Man of the People (1988) by Chinua Achebe
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Arrow of God (1989)

I was first struck by how funny this novel was. I guffawed several times while reading it. It takes a remarkable writer to do this with humor, especially across cultures.I thought this work illustrated well the role of religion in society. For the Igbo there was no separation of religion from soc...

Arrow of God (1989) by Chinua Achebe
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Girls at War and Other Stories (1991)

What do you do when you are in the middle of several lengthy novels, and have library books which you haven't even started yet which are due in a few short days? Why, you check out another book, a short story collection by an author whose 'opus' is a novel you read over a decade ago for your Worl...

Girls at War and Other Stories (1991) by Chinua Achebe
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Collected Poems (2004)

A Mother in a Refugee Camp No Madonna and Child could touch Her tenderness for a son She soon would have to forget…. The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea, Of unwashed children with washed-out ribs And dried-up bottoms waddling in labored steps Behind blown-empty bellies. Other mothers there H...

Collected Poems (2004) by Chinua Achebe
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Girls at War (2012)

To be a clerk in those days is like to be a minister today. My salary was two pounds ten. You may laugh but two pounds ten in those days is like fifty pounds today. You could buy a big goat with four shillings. I could remember the most senior African in the company was one Saro man on ten-thirte...

Girls at War (2012) by Chinua Achebe
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Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

The choice of Abazon as sanctuary came quite naturally. At the purely sentimental level it was Ikem’s native province which, although he had rarely spent much time there in recent years, still remained in a curious paradoxical way the distant sustainer of all his best inspirations, so that going ...

Anthills of the Savannah (1987) by Chinua Achebe
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The Education of a British-Protected Child (2009)

Nowhere is the difference more stark and startling than in the ability to ask a parent: “How many children do you have?” The right answer should be a rebuke: “Children are not livestock!” Or better still, silence, and carry on as if the question was never asked. But things are changing and changi...

The Education of a British-Protected Child (2009) by Chinua Achebe

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