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Author |
: Kole Omotoso |
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Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015037472647 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Achebe Or Soyinka? by : Kole Omotoso
Nigerian novelist Omotoso delineates the contrast between the country's two most widely read writers, describing Wole Soyinka as a playful imagist steeped in the myth and magic of his Yoruba culture, and Chinua Achebe as expressing internalized Igbo cultural traditions. He discusses their differences in style, background, and vision within the context and contradictions of pan-African, Nigerian nation-state, and ethnic national agendas. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Anjali Gera Roy |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 160 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105025955001 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Three Great African Novelists by : Anjali Gera Roy
Author |
: Chinua Achebe |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 1994-09-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780385474542 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0385474547 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Things Fall Apart by : Chinua Achebe
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” —Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Things Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebe's critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africa's cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one man's futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of our contemporary realities.
Author |
: Mukoma Wa Ngugi |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2018-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472053681 |
ISBN-13 |
: 047205368X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise of the African Novel by : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Engaging questions of language, identity, and reception to restore South African and diaspora writing to the African literary tradition
Author |
: Chinua Achebe |
Publisher |
: Heinemann |
Total Pages |
: 86 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0435906984 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780435906986 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Trouble with Nigeria by : Chinua Achebe
This novel about Nigeria prophesied the 1983 coup.
Author |
: Chinua Achebe |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 1975 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105036176977 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis In Person--Achebe, Awoonor, and Soyinka at the University of Washington by : Chinua Achebe
Author |
: Chinua Achebe |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2012-10-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101595985 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1101595981 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis There Was a Country by : Chinua Achebe
From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart—a long-awaited memoir of coming of age in a fragile new nation, and its destruction in a tragic civil war For more than forty years, Chinua Achebe maintained a considered silence on the events of the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970, addressing them only obliquely through his poetry. Decades in the making, There Was a Country is a towering account of one of modern Africa’s most disastrous events, from a writer whose words and courage left an enduring stamp on world literature. A marriage of history and memoir, vivid firsthand observation and decades of research and reflection, There Was a Country is a work whose wisdom and compassion remind us of Chinua Achebe’s place as one of the great literary and moral voices of our age.
Author |
: Wole Soyinka |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 465 |
Release |
: 2021-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781526638229 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1526638223 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by : Wole Soyinka
'Soyinka's greatest novel ... No one else can write such a book' - Ben Okri 'A high-jinks state-of-the-nation novel' - Chibundu Onuzo A FINANCIAL TIMES AND SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A towering figure in world literature, Wole Soyinka aims directly at the corridors of power as he warns against corruption both of high office and of the soul, with a dazzling lightness of touch and gleeful irreverence. Much to Doctor Menka's horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery, he shares this latest development with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne, who has never before met a puzzle he couldn't solve. Neither realise how close the enemy is, nor how powerful. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a savagely witty whodunit, a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite, and a provocative call to arms from one of the country's most relentless political activists and an international literary giant. MORE PRAISE FOR WOLE SOYINKA: 'You don't see the things the same when you encounter a voice like that' - Toni Morrison 'One of the best there is today, a poet and a thinker, who knows both how the world works and how the world should work' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author |
: V. S. Naipaul |
Publisher |
: Knopf Canada |
Total Pages |
: 291 |
Release |
: 2010-10-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307399977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307399974 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Masque of Africa by : V. S. Naipaul
Understanding Africa is critical for all concerned with the world today: in what promises to be his final great work of reportage, one of the keenest observers of the continent surveys the effects of belief and religion on the disparate peoples of Africa. The Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction to be published since his internationally bestselling Beyond Belief. Like all of Naipaul's great works of non-fiction, The Masque of Africa is superficially a book of travels — full of people, stories and landscapes he visits — but it also encompasses a larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (whether in indigenous animisms, faiths imposed by other cultures, or even the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization.
Author |
: Wole Soyinka |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 2015 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9788457487 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789788457480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis InterInventions by : Wole Soyinka