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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe received numerous literary awards, including the Saint Louis Literary Award (1999), the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade (2002), and the Man Booker International Prize (2007). He...

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Nnaemeka objects to his father's choice of Ugoye as a bride due to several reasons. Firstly, he is already engaged to Nene, an Ibibio girl, and fears his father's disapproval of marrying outside...

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If a world language, English, is to continue to be understood by all peoples and in all lands where it is spoken, Achebe says that (1) it must submit to the use of many different kinds of people; and...

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The response generated is correct. Nigerian author Chinua Achebe uses satire to critique societal issues, including colonialism and the conflicts between traditional African culture and modern...

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Imagery in Achebe's poems "Butterfly" and "Vultures" prominently features nature and destruction. In "Vultures," natural imagery includes a vulture "perching high on broken bone of a dead tree,"...

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Elizabeth is shocked when her son Amos plans to marry an Osu woman, a member of the lowest caste in Igbo society, due to his Christian conversion. Despite being a Christian herself, Elizabeth is...

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Two details that suggest that the setting of the poem "Refugee Mother and Child" by Achebe is a refugee camp are the following air was heavy with odours of diarrhoea of unwashed children and...

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The theme of "Bull and Egret" by Chinua Achebe centers on the negative impacts of the decolonization struggle in Nigeria, specifically the Biafran War of 1967-1970. Through the imagery of a bull and...

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Both "Refugee Mother & Child" and "An Abandoned Bundle" explore themes of death and inhumanity through the depiction of children who have died needlessly. The settings—famine-stricken areas and...

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Before the arrival of white men, the distribution of land and the Bible symbolizes the impact of Christian imperialism, where colonized societies like the Ibo people of Nigeria were compelled to...

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Achebe details Chike's parents' marriage to provide context for Chike's unusual behavior and beliefs. Chike's father, Amos, married an Osu woman, making their family outcasts in a traditional...

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The poem "Refugee Mother and Child" by Chinua Achebe does enhance the dignity of motherhood by portraying the refugee mother's tenderness, surpassing even that of the Virgin Mary. However, the poem...

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