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Chinua Achebe

1. In 1960 when Nigeria got their independence, the educational system began to reflect a sense of growing national pride with Achebe's book "Things Fall Apart" 2. In 1964, that same book became the first novel by an African author to be included in the required syllabus for African secondary school students 3. By 1965, Things fall apart had become a "classic" in Africa and through out the world 4. The dialogue used in his stories are very sparse. 5. There are two point of views in the book "Things Fall Apart". 6. One point of view is from the Africans, and one is from the Western. 7. Also wrote articles for newspapers and magazines 8. Said he could write poetry that would be intense and to the point. 9. He is very critical of how Western's portray native Africans 10. He wrote an essay criticizing Joseaph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" 11. He criticized by saying it was one of the many novels that depicts Africa as a place of ignorents slavery 12. Loved hearing stories of his tribe when he was young 13. Read many books written by Western's 14. He read them until he realized the racisim towards Africa 15. He is a professor at a college in New York 16. Paralyzed from the waist down from car accident 17. "No Longer at Ease" was his most famous novel 18. Won Man Booker award given out for many books written

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1. One of his concepts is "I am my brothers keeper." 2. Showing that even though he might be better than you, he'll also help you. 3. He thinks he is a strong man because "his father was the oppisite." 4. Professor at Bard College in New York 5. Took a break from writing in 1966 to 1988 6. The break was for him to focus on the struggle for independence in Nigeria's Biafra region. 7. Was never a minister but a supporter and a spokesman of his section of Nigeria after a genocide 8. His writings that show Nigeria's fractured political past, and still shapes the way he envisions Africa 9. In a quote, he says that there is a leadership problem in Nigeria and that there needs to be a leader that is for the people. 10. In that same quotes he also states that he has had trouble in Nigeria because he has spoken up for the mistreatment of factions in Nigeria.

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1. Went to the University College of Ibadan 2. Wrote //Things Fall Apart// for what he saw as an inaccurate characterzation of Africa and Africans by the British 3. Wrote Things Fall Apart to describe the effects on the Ibo society upon the arrival of European colonizers and missionaries in the late 1800's 4. No Longer at Ease is a brilliant statement on the challenges facing Africa today. 5. A Man of the People was written to show the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between two worlds. 6. Girls at War is twelve stories put together and they show the social and political issues that confront Africans on daily basis. ​