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Chinua Achebe Questions and Answers

What are some examples of imagery in Achebe's poems, "Butterfly" and "Vultures?"

What are Nnaemeka's objections to the girl his father finds for him to marry?

What literary awards has Chinua Achebe received?

Comment on this text from Chinua Achebe related to translation, specifically the word "English." What did the author mean? "What I . . . see is a new voice coming out of Africa, speaking of African experience in a world-wide language. . . . The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. . . . The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. . . . He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience . . . I feel that the English language will be able to carry the weight of my African experience. But it will have to be a new English, still in full communion with its ancestral home but altered to suit its new African surroundings." (1994: 433–4)

What is the theme of the poem "Bull and Egret" by Chinua Achebe?

What are two details that suggest the setting of the poem "Refugee Mother and Child" by China Achebe?

Why does Chinua Achebe tell us the story of how Chike's parents were married in the middle of "Chike's School Days"?

"before the coming of the white men we use to have the land and the white men used to have the bible.Now, we have the bible and they have the land"

The poem "Refugee Mother and Child" by Chinua Achebe touches our hearts with love and compassion and enhances the dignity of motherhood. Comment.

In "Chike's School Days," what shocks Elizabeth so much that she nearly dies, and what does she do to try to correct her son's mistake?

What are some critical notes on Chinua Achebe's There Was a Country?

How do I compare the thematic links between the poems "Refugee Mother & Child" by Chinua Achebe and "An Abandoned Bundle" by M.O. Mtshali?

Guide me for doing a cultural linguistic study of two novelists: Chinua Achebe & Anita Desai. This is a comparative study for research programme.

What does Achebe mean by saying, "Of a tribe, they say fate has chosen for slow extinction," in "The Bull and Egret"?