Life and Times of Chinua Achebe

List of contents

Introduction Timeline: Key Dates in the Life and Times of Chinua Achebe 1. The Life and Education of Chinua Achebe 2. Chinua Achebe’s Education as Template 3. The Four Phases of Chinua Achebe’s Writing Career 4. Leave of Absence Abroad Interrupted for Patriotic Duties at Home 5. My Interviews with Chinua Achebe 6. The Eagle on Iroko Critically Analyzes the Problem with Nigeria Of Governance, Revolutions, and Victims: Chinua Achebe and Literary Activism in Anthills of the Savannah 8. Year 1990 and After: A New Life and Phase IV of Achebe’s Writing Career 9. My Review of Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra 10. Other Critics’ Reviews of There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra 11. Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God: A Foretaste of Igbo Intra-ethnic Democracy in the Present Day Nigerian Geopolitical System 12. Remembering Achebe the Man, His Literary Mission, and His Achievements

About the author

Kalu Ogbaa is Professor of English and Faculty Scholar Award winner at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, where he teaches English, Africana Literary and Cultural Studies, as well as Commonwealth Literatures. He obtained his B.A. (Hons) degree in English from The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, MAin Black Studiesfrom The Ohio State University, and PhD in English from The University of Texas at Austin.

Summary

The Life and Times of Chinua Achebe introduces readers to the life, literary works, and times of arguably the most widely-read African novelist of recent times, an icon, both in continental Africa and abroad.

Product details

• Authors: Kalu Ogbaa, Ogbaa Kalu
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781032026022
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3202602-2
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Global Africa
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Nigeria, Biography: literary, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Biography: writers, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies