Achebe, Chinua
Achebe, Chinua ( 1930 – ),author, born and educated in Nigeria, where his father taught in a school under the Church Missionary Society. He studied at University College, Ibadan, 1948 – 53 , then worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service in Lagos. One of the most highly regarded of African writers in English, Achebe's reputation was founded on his first four novels, which can be seen as a sequence recreating Africa's journey from tradition to modernity. Things Fall Apart ( 1958 ) seems to derive from W. B. Yeats its vision of history as well as its title; it was followed by No Longer at Ease ( 1960 ); Arrow of God ( 1964 ), a portrayal of traditional society at the time of its first confrontation with European society (a traditional society recreated in Achebe's novels by the use of Ibo legend and proverb); and A Man of the People ( 1966 ), which breaks new ground. Bitterness...
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