Chinua Achebe S No Longer At Ease

Chinua Achebe s No Longer At Ease

He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apartwhich is the most widely read book in Read More Chinua Achebe was a novelist, poet, professor at Brown University and critic.

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He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apartwhich is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies.

He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and began writing stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos.

Achebe writes his novels in English and has defended the use of English, a language of colonizers, in African literature. When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria inAchebe became a devoted supporter of Biafran independence and served as ambassador for the people of the new nation. The war ravaged the populace, and as starvation and violence took its toll, he appealed to the people of Europe and the Americas for aid.

When the Nigerian government retook the region inhe involved himself in political parties but soon resigned due to frustration over the corruption and elitism he witnessed. He lived in the United States for several years in the s, and returned to the U. Achebes novels focus on the traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash of values during and after the colonial era.