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Chinua Achebe (born n government of 1967-1970, Achebe is primarily interested in African politics, the depiction of Africa and Africans in the West, and the intricacies of pre-colonial African culture and civilization, as well as the effects of colonialization on African societies. Achebe's 1958 novel '' on Joseph Conrad , Achebe's 2001 ''Home and Exile'' reiterated his long-standing belief that Africa and Africans were being unfairly marginalized and dismissed by European and Western-oriented intellectuals. Achebe: Home and Exile He was once recalled by in honour of his literary career.1 EARLY LIFE Albert Chinualumogu Achebe was born in from 1944 to 1947, and the University of Ibadan from 1948 to 1953. At the University Of Ibadan , then known as University College, Ibadan, Achebe studied English , history and Theology . The University of Ibadan produced a plethora of remarkable poets and authors in the years before and after Achebe's presence there, including Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka , Elechi Amadi , John Pepper Clark , and Christopher Okigbo . , left, in Publishing Course list of top 100 novels of the 20th century) and Africa (Africa's Best Books of the 20th Century). Achebe proceeded to study broadcasting at the British Broadcasting Corporation , becoming the first Director of External Broadcasting at the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation in 1961. During the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, he took a position with the Biafra n government as an ambassador, an experience that informed and inspired much of his work, including his celebrated poem, "Refugee Mother and Child." The war devastated Nigeria . Christopher Okigbo , a friend and associate of Achebe from his days at the University Of Ibadan , would lose his life in the war and humanitarian catastrophe that was to befall the region. Achebe's poem, "Dirge for Okigbo ", originally written in the Igbo Language in 1971 but translated to English for later publication, is based on a traditional Igbo dirge. An interview with Chinua Achebe LATER LIFE A founding editor of ''Okike'', Achebe was also active in the Igbo-language journal of poetry and literary criticism ''Uwa ndi Igbo'', as well as numerous other publications. The founding editor of Heinemann Publisher's African Writers Series , a body of work that has emerged as a cornerstone of Postcolonial Literature , Achebe was instrumental in introducing the world to new writing from Africa. His treatise of literary criticism, '','' has become one of the most influential, controversial, widely studied and debated essays of its kind in classrooms around the world. Decrying Joseph Conrad as "a thoroughgoing racist", Achebe asserts that Conrad's Famous Novel dehumanizes Africans, rendering Africa as "a metaphysical battlefield devoid of all recognizable humanity, into which the wandering European enters at his peril." An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Many scholars have suggested that Achebe has had to bear a heavy burden both for his criticism of Conrad, and for his more general criticism of European and Western racism. Chinua Achebe: The unacknowledged Nobel laureate Despite a lifetime as "a literary champion of his people and crusader for the dignity of the voiceless and dispossessed everywhere", Achebe has never received a Nobel Prize, an omission that has often been criticized.[http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/literari/2006/oct/01/literari-01-10-2006-001.htm Chinua Achebe deserves Nobel Prize] |
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