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An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria de Chinua Achebe

An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria: Penguin Great Ideas

Autor Chinua Achebe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 aug 2010
Beautifully written yet highly controversial,An Image of Africaasserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novelHeart of Darknessonly serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also included isThe Trouble with Nigeria, Achebe's searing outpouring of his frustrations with his country.
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ISBN-13: 9780141192581
ISBN-10: 0141192585
Pagini: 112
Dimensiuni: 111 x 181 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.07 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin Classics
Seria Penguin Great Ideas

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and graduated from University College, Ibadan. His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. Achebe joined the Biafran Ministry of Information and represented Biafra on various diplomatic and fund-raising missions. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad. For over fifteen years, he was the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. He was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana studies at Brown University. Chinua Achebe wrote over twenty books - novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry - and received numerous honours from around the world, including the Honourary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. He was also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Merit Award. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. He died in 2013.