History Creator / ChinuaAchebe

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 -- 21 March 2013) was one of, if not the most significant 20th century African author and literary star to emerge from the continent. Achebe was born in an Igbo village in British Nigeria to Pentecostal parents into an era when the continent was undergoing the transition from colonial Protectorate to emerging nation state.

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was one of, if not the most significant 20th century African author and literary star to emerge from the continent. Achebe was born in an Igbo village in British Nigeria to Pentecostal parents into an era when the continent was undergoing the transition from colonial Protectorate to emerging nation state.

In 1990 Achebe was left paralyzed from the waist down following a traffic accident leaving him to rely on the use of a wheelchair and remain permanently in the United States for medical care. After a short illness Achebe passed away in Boston in 2013.

[[caption-width-right:350:"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool."]]

In 1990 Achebe was left paralyzed from the waist down following a traffic accident leaving him to reply on the use of a wheelchair and remain permanently in the United States for medical care. After a short illness Achebe passed away in Boston in 2013.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Achebe loves this trope. He wrote historical novels about the Igbo people, and doesn't fail to include disturbing cultural practices like abandoning newborn twins in the forest to die, a certain caste being forbidden to live with the rest of the people or one protagonist killing his adopted son due to an inscrutable oracular order. The point is that while many aspects of Igbo culture were good and their loss a tragedy, the novels also make it clear why so many Igbo were willing to trade them in for the colonial Anglo-Christian culture, which is also portrayed as neither wholly good nor bad.

* DarkestAfrica: One of its most famous critics, leading to this becoming a DeconstructedTrope if there ever was one, intending to shift the perspective on Africa in literature away from white Western authors to native and black writers.

* CultureClash

Chinua Achebe (b. Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 1930–2013) was one of, if not the most significant 20th century African author and literary star to emerge from the continent. Achebe was born in an Igbo village in British Nigeria to Pentecostal parents into an era when the continent was undergoing the transition from colonial Protectorate to emerging nation state.

* DarkestAfrica: One of its most famous critics, leading to this becoming a DeconstructedTrope if there ever was one.

* CultureClash

* ''Anthills of the Savannah'' (1987)

In 1990 Achebe was tragically left paralyzed from the waist down following a traffic accident leaving him to reply on the use of a wheelchair and remain permanently in the United States for medical care. After a short illness Achebe passed away in 2013.

He is particularly famous for challenging the depiction of Africans in Creator/JosephConrad's novel ''Literature/HeartOfDarkness'' which he deemed dehumanizing and racist despite Conrad's intent to illustrate the exploitation of Africa by Europeans.

From the publication of ''ThingsFallApart'' in 1958 Achebe's works dealt with themes of the effects of colonization on the African people, tribal customs, gender roles and the desire of Africans to write tell their own stories following years of having only limited representation by White and European authors.

* Literature/''ThingsFallApart'' (1958)
* Literature/''NoLongerAtEase'' (1960)
* Literature/''ArrowOfGod'' (1964)

* Literature/ThingsFallApart (1958)
* Literature/NoLongerAtEase (1960)
* Literature/ArrowOfGod (1964)
* A Man of the People (1966)
* Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Chinua Achebe (b. Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 1930 – 2013) was one of, if not the most significant 20th century African author and literary star to emerge from the continent. Achebe was born in an Igbo village in British Nigeria to Pentecostal parents into an era when the continent was undergoing the transition from colonial Protectorate to emerging nation state.

Chinua Achebe (b. Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was one of, if not the most significant 20th century African author and literary star to emerge from the continent. Achebe was born in an Igbo village in British Nigeria to Pentecostal parents into an era when the continent was undergoing the transition from colonial Protectorate to emerging nation state.

''Chinua Achebe'' (b. Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was one of, if not the most significant 20th century African author and literary star to emerge from the continent. Achebe was born in an Igbo village in British Nigeria to Pentecostal parents into an era when the continent was undergoing the transition from colonial Protectorate to emerging nation state.

''Chinua Achebe'' (b. Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was one of, if not the most significant 20th century African author and literary star to emerge from the continent. Achebe was born in an Igbo village in British Nigeria to Pentecostal parents into an era when the continent was undergoing the transition from colonial Protectorate to emerging Nation State.

[[caption-width-right:350:When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.]]

Chinua Achebe (b. Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was one of, if not the most significant 20th century African author and literary star to emerge from the continent. Achebe was born in an Igbo village in British Nigeria to Pentecostal parents into an era when the continent was undergoing the transition from colonial Protectorate to emerging Nation State.

Chinua Achebe (b. Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was one of, if not the most significant 20th century African author and literary star to emerge from the continent.

* No Longer at Ease (1960)
* Arrow of God (1964)

* Things Fall Apart (1958)