Geburtsdatum | Sonntag, 16. November 1930 |
Geburtsort | British_Nigeria |
Todesort | Boston |
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Beschreibung | Chinua Achebe (/ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/; 16. November 1930 - 21. März 2013) war ein nigerianischer Romancier, Dichter und Kritiker, der als Leitfigur der modernen afrikanischen Literatur gilt. Sein erster Roman und Hauptwerk, Things Fall Apart (1958), nimmt einen zentralen Platz in der afrikanischen Literatur ein und ist nach wie vor der am meisten studierte, übersetzte und gelesene afrikanische Roman. Zusammen mit Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease (1960) und Arrow of God (1964) vervollständigt er die so genannte "afrikanische Trilogie"; zu seinen späteren Romanen gehören A Man of the People (1966) und Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Er wird oft als "Vater der afrikanischen Literatur" bezeichnet, obwohl er diese Bezeichnung energisch zurückwies. |
I don't care about age very much.
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
