Ifeanyi_Urigwe March 22, 2013 19:49 Achebe, the man whose works thought us all how to read and write. You explained my Igbo culture and landscape like no other. The inspiration I drew from you and other great writers from our continent inspired my workSuffice it to say then that Chinua Achebe has been around all my life – from the Heinemann Series poster of a smiling, serious, bemused, pipe smoking Achebe that was framed in our family sitting room, to cases of mistakenMr. Achebe, who has died at 82, was a lifelong observer of his home country, Nigeria.Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and towering man of letters whose internationally acclaimed fiction helped to revive African literature and to rewrite the story of a continent that had long been told by Western voices, died on Thursday in Boston. HeGrowing up in Nigeria, Mr. Achebe attended schools that were modeled upon British public schools. In his recent book of essays, “The Education of a British-Protected Child” (2009), he was eloquent about what it felt like as a young man to read classic
Related External LinksChinua Achebe: We lost a national treasure – TinubuGovernor of Chinua Achebe's home state in Nigeria demands he be ...Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) Houghton Library
Brak komentarzy:
Prześlij komentarz