Looking back at his own life and education, this book by the giant of African literature is a deeply personal and essential key for unlocking all of Achebe's literature and…

This study casts back over Achebe’s writing career to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and criticism, including his Editorship of Heinemann’s acclaimed African Writers Series which has shaped…

Asserts the author’s belief in Joseph Conrad as a ‘bloody racist’ and his conviction that Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. This…

Africa’s most prominent writer and author of Things Fall Apart offers his first fully autobiographical work, which serves not only as a moving account of his exceptional life but also…

Achebe uses the ‘fall’ of one man, a descendent of the hero in Things Fall Apart, to depict the birth of a whole new age in Nigerian life - one…

Arrow of God reverts to the tribal world. Ezeulu, the head priest of Ube,faces an erosion of values both from within his tribe and from without. On the one hand…

Several hundred A-Z entries cover Achebe’s major works, important characters and settings, key concepts and issues, and more.

In a riveting fable for young readers about the potency and dangers of power taken by force, Nigerian writer Achebe ( Things Fall Apart ) evokes themes of liberation and…