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Casimir, Komenan. "“Chike’s School Days”: An Autrebiography Verbalizing Chinua Achebe’s Early Schooling." International Journal of Social Science Studies 8, no. 6 (2020): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v8i6.5061.

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Todorov’s syntactic, verbal and semantic aspects of the literary text, onomastics and Mauron’s psychocriticism, underlie this paper whose goal is to show that Chinua Achebe’s “Chike’s School Days” is an autrebiography verbalizing Achebe’s early schooling. As two major thematic Ariadne’s threads, the religious, familial and onomastic connections between Chike and Achebe, as well as Achebe’s untimely love for Shakespeare’s language, have been used to compose an autrebiograhical short story, a shortened fiction about the self, which is narrated not in the first-person (“I”), but rather in the thi

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Anthony James and Hosanna Hussaini Wakkai. "The Use of Folkloric Craft in Indigenizing the English Language: A Study of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart." Creative Saplings 4, no. 5 (2025): 14–26. https://doi.org/10.56062//gtrs.2025.4.05.962.

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After many decades of the emergence of Things Fall Apart, the novel continues to generate a lot of scholarly conversation both literary and linguistic wise. Basically, because of Achebe’s craftsmanship skills which he deploys in creating the story of Things Fall Apart. The major appeal in this story, is how Achebe judiciously uses the English language to enact the folklore of the Igbo-Nigerian culture. Through this skill, Achebe creates a unique type of English that is domesticated and indigenized, with which he ferries his Igbo-Nigerian folk culture into the world stage. And because of the an

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Zahid, Sazzad Hossain. "Cultural Diversity in Igbo Life: A Postcolonial Response to Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God." International Journal of Social Sciences 5, no. 23 (2021): 69–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.52096/usbd.5.23.5.5.

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In his book Chinua Achebe, David Caroll (1980) describes the novel Arrow of God as a fight for dominance both on the theological and political level, as well as in the framework of Igbo philosophy. In Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe (1990), famous Achebe critics C. L. Innes and Berth Lindforts consider Arrow of God as a novel with conflicting ideas and voices inside each community with the tensions and rivalries that make it alive and vital. Another profound scholar on Achebe Chinwe Christiana Okechukwu (2001) in Achebe the Orator: The Art of Persuasion in Chinua Achebe's Novels assesse

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Emodi, Livina Nkeiruka and Okeke, Fidelia Azuka. "Transitivity of Proverbs in Things Fall Apart." International Journal of English Language Studies 4, no. 2 (2022): 44–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijels.2022.4.2.5.

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The aim of this study is to investigate transitivity in proverbs in Achebe's Things Fall Apart. It explores the relationship between linguistic structures in proverbs by critically examining the processes, participants, and circumstantials as used by Achebe in his work. The analysis reveals that Achebe uses more material processes, followed by relational, and then verbal, behavioural, and mental. Achebe mostly uses actors, goals, carriers, attributes, identified, identifier, sayer, verbiage, and behaver to convey the message of his novel and the behaviours of the characters he used in his book

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Ghimire, Surendra Prasad. "The Depiction of Okonkwo's Tragic Situation through Symbols: An Analysis of Achebe's Things Fall Apart." Formosa Journal of Multidisciplinary Research 2, no. 7 (2023): 1277–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/fjmr.v2i7.5244.

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This paper aims to investigate how Achebe utilized various symbols to project the protagonist, Okankow's, forthcoming tragic situation in the novel Things Fall Apart. I utilized the concept of the symbol as a theoretical perspective to analyze the text. Here, I argued that Achebe used various symbols in the novel to reflect the protagonist's forthcoming devastating situation. The discussion has identified that Achebe used multiple symbols, such as Okonkwo's involvement in killing Ikemefuna, Ezeudu's son, ash, fire, and so forth, which symbolized Okonkwo's forthcoming devastating situation. The

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Wosu, Kalu, and Jane Nnamdi. "Rescuing the woman from the Achebean Periphery: The discourse of gender and power in Chinua Achebe’s Things fall apart and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo’s The last of the strong ones." Journal of Gender and Power 12, no. 2 (2019): 137–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.14746/jgp.2019.12.008.

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A great majority of African cultures are patriarchal, which is to say that the male members of such societies are responsible for the perpetuation of family/blood lines. Cultural practices such as succession rites, female genital mutilation, hereditary, widowhood rites, polygamy, kinship, etc., aggregate to marginalize African women, thus conferring absolute power on men. The perpetuation of the ruses of patriarchy is also enabled through writing. Since literature is ideologically determined, it is created by/through discourse; writing becomes an avenue through which male writers sustain the s

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Evrard, AMOI. "The Nigerian Malaise: A Critical Reading of The Trouble with Nigeria By Chinua Achebe." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 12, no. 5 (2025): 8614–18. https://doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v12i05.05.

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This article offers a critical reading of The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe, analyzing the deep-rooted causes of Nigeria’s political and moral dysfunction in the postcolonial era. The author denounces the failure of the political elite, whom he holds responsible for the nation’s inability to progress, while also highlighting the passive complicity of a society that tolerates impunity and mediocrity. Achebe calls for an ethical reform of leadership, grounded in integrity, accountability, and civic engagement. Through this reflection, Achebe’s essay stands out as a major work of African

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Mutashar, Hussein Zaboon. "Reclaiming African Identity: Analyzing Issues of Postcolonial-ism in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart"." International Journal of Language Learning and Applied Linguistics 3, no. 3 (2024): 71–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.51699/ijllal.v3i3.93.

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Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" stands as a seminal work in postcolonial literature, exploring the intricate dynamics between colonizers and the colonized in the context of European colonization's impact on African societies. This abstract delves into the novel's portrayal of postcolonial themes, focusing on the disruption of traditional Igbo culture, power dynamics between Europeans and indigenous peoples, and the psychological and emotional repercussions of colonization. Achebe was motivated to write the novel as a response to European portrayals of Africans in literature, particularly i

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Muneeni, Jeremiah Mutuku. "Female Assertion as an Antidote to Male Dominance: Mother Archetypes in Achebe’s Novels—Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and A Man of the People." Editon Consortium Journal of Literature and Linguistic Studies 1, no. 1 (2019): 13–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjlls.v1i1.55.

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There has been an intense debate with regards to Chinua Achebe’s (mis)representation of women in his creative works, especially his first four novels. Some scholars have argued that Achebe is a patriarchal writer who has relegated women to the periphery. Nevertheless, a few have read subtle nuances of gender balance in his works. This paper is a continuation of this debate. Specifically, it argues that Achebe has created Mother Archetypes in his novels and if the same is not recognized, he will continue to be demonized as a gender insensitive writer. The unit of analysis is three of the five A

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Bakheet Khaleel Ismail, Khaleel. "The Use of Proverbs and Idiomatic Expressions in Chinua Achebe’s ‘No Longer at Ease’ and ‘Arrow of God’." Sumerianz Journal of Education, Linguistics and Literature, no. 41 (January 27, 2021): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.47752/sjell.41.10.14.

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The main aim of this paper is to critically analyze and examine the use of proverbs and idiomatic expressions in the two novels of Chinua Achebe; ‘No Longer at Ease’ and ‘Arrow of God’. It basically probes deconstructively, the sociocultural norms, traditions, and communal practices in Achebe’s narratives as exemplified via proverbs and idiomatic expressions in the selected texts. It is an analytical descriptive and thematic study whereby, proverbs are carefully sorted out, explained and analyzed according the contexts of their occurrences. After a thorough analysis of the primary texts, the p

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Schwarz, Bill. "After Decolonization, After Civil Rights: Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin." James Baldwin Review 1, no. 1 (2015): 41–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/jbr.1.3.

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The escalation of systematic, if random, violence in the contemporary world frames the concerns of the article, which seeks to read Baldwin for the present. It works by a measure of indirection, arriving at Baldwin after a detour which introduces Chinua Achebe. The Baldwin–Achebe relationship is familiar fare. However, here I explore not the shared congruence between their first novels, but rather focus on their later works, in which the reflexes of terror lie close to the surface. I use Achebe’s final novel, Anthills of the Savanah, as a way into Baldwin’s “difficult” last book, The Evidence

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T, Dhanalakshmi. "NATURE AND SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN ACHEBE’S THINGS FALL APART." Kongunadu Research Journal 4, no. 1 (2017): 48–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/krj176.

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The aim of this paper is to attempt a reading of Things Fall Apart from an eco-critical perspective to show that Achebe was writing the novel in part to make his African readers aware of the extent of the embeddedness of their forefathers in the environment. To illustrate the ways through which he delineates the manifold connections between the African and the land. Achebe intends to focus on his depiction of the damage caused in the relationship between Africans and their natural world by the advent of colonization. Finally, through this paper hope to emphasize Achebe’s profound belief in the

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Eckstein, Barbara J., and C. L. Innes. "Chinua Achebe." World Literature Today 64, no. 4 (1990): 687. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40147057.

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Sharabi, Leyla. "Chinua Achebe." Callaloo 25, no. 2 (2002): 496. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2002.0100.

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BOOTH, JAMES. "Chinua Achebe." African Affairs 89, no. 357 (1990): 601–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098347.

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Bemfica Mineiro, Imara, and Luiz Henrique Costa de Santana. "CHINUA ACHEBE:." CADERNOS DE ESTUDOS CULTURAIS 1, no. 30 (2024): 147–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.55028/cesc.v1i30.22076.

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O processo de colonização de África esteve marcado por estratégias que promoveram a deshumanização e a animalização dos sujeitos africanos. Diante disso, a literatura surge como uma expressão artística e cultural que reafirma ou que aponta para os estigmas da colonização, para os rastros do colonialismo e as marcas da colonialidade. Neste artigo abordamos o romance O mundo se despedaça, do escritor nigeriano Chinua Achebe ([1958] 2009), em uma análise comparativa com O Coração das Trevas, de Joseph Conrad ([1899] 2008), a fim de comparar as representações tecidas sobre o imperialismo colonial

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Irele, F. Abiola. "Chinua Achebe At Seventy: Homage to Chinua Achebe." Research in African Literatures 32, no. 3 (2001): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2001.32.3.1.

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Culea, Mihaela. "“Middle Ground,” “Duality,” and “Diversimilarity” as Responses to Postcolonial and Global Challenges in Chinua Achebe’s “The Education of a British-Protected Child” and “No Longer at Ease”." Respectus Philologicus 24, no. 29 (2013): 151–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2013.24.29.13.

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This paper discusses two literary works by Chinua Achebe—No Longer at Ease (1960) and The Education of a British-Protected Child (2011)—in the context of the issue of diversity in the postcolonial setting. It aims to approach Achebe’s work from a new perspective, by applying a theoretical paradigm employed in business to the study of literature and culture. The “diversimilarity” paradigm, used for managing cultural diversity in organisations, is applied and shown to be pertinent to the investigation of literature, too. The methodology employed combines theoretical data with the practical impli

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Md Eaqub Ali. "A Study of Colonial Confrontation in The Things Fall Apart." International Journal of Applied Educational Research (IJAER) 2, no. 4 (2024): 261–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.59890/ijaer.v2i4.1973.

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This research paper critically examines the portrayal of colonial confrontation in Chinua Achebe’s "Things Fall Apart," highlighting the themes of suppression and oppression. It argues that Achebe adeptly reconstructs the historical and political context of the Igbo people's recent past, illustrating their suppression and oppression by European colonizers. Furthermore, the paper explores how Achebe portrays Igbo community life and demonstrates how the arrival of white missionaries and colonial administrators gradually undermined traditional Igbo values. This erosion occurred initially through

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LAWAL, Musibau O. "Gender and Power in Selected Works of Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie: An Analytic Reappraisal." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 2, no. 2 (2020): 270–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v2i2.319.

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Indeed, gender and power discourses as ideological concessions have been investigated and reviewed from various perspectives by different scholars in the works of Chinua Achebe and Chimamanda Adichie. This paper offers a reappraisal of the views of the scholars essentially on the issues of gender and power in the selected works of Achebe and Adichie, viz: Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah and There Was a Country and Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun. The work, therefore, gives a reappraisal of the thoughts of scholars and presents a coalescence of their views, offering a disti

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Zobaer, Sheikh. "The Language Debate:." Crossings: A Journal of English Studies 9 (August 1, 2018): 132–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.59817/cjes.v9i.113.

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Thiong’o’s groundbreaking book Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature is one of the most discussed and critically acclaimed postcolonial works. The book has four essays; “The Quest for Relevance” is the last essay which discusses the importance of prioritizing African literature in the academia. According to Thiong’o, the only way African students can benefit from studying literature is by prioritizing the study of their own literature in their own language. In fact, Thiong’o has taken his view to such an extreme that he has declared this book to be his “farewell

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Bizhan Hekmatshoar Tabari and Bamshad Hekmatshoar Tabari. "Chinua Achebe, Homi Bhabha and the Language of Ambivalence in Things Fall Apart." Creative Launcher 4, no. 5 (2019): 15–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.5.03.

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Chinua Achebe, the contemporary Nigerian novelist is one of the most outstanding figures in modern African Literature. What bestows him such a credit might be taken to be his attempts to use literature as a discursive tool in the way of de-colonization. Precisely, what Achebe does in his novels is providing an alternative discourse which can depict not only an authentic picture of native African life with all its complexity, but also dynamic native characters in such a context with all their human and existential conflicts. Thus, it can be claimed that what makes Achebe’s novels different from

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Saidu, Dr Dauda. "Complexities of the Savannah: A Postcolonial Reading of Insecurity in Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah." International Journal of Environmental Sciences 11, no. 9s (2025): 216–29. https://doi.org/10.64252/wz0m1w71.

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This paper presents a comprehensive postcolonial analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987), focusing on the interplay between political insecurity, failed leadership, and the potential for resistance and renewal in post-independence African societies. Set in the fictional West African nation of Kangan, the novel offers a searing critique of authoritarian governance, systemic corruption, and socio-economic decay. Through a close examination of key characters—Ikem Osodi, Chris Oriko, and Beatrice Okoh—this study explores how Achebe articulates the psychological, structural, and

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Aning, John, Confidence Gbolo Sanka, and Francis Elsbend Kofigah. "The Mythopoetics of Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah." International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 6, no. 1 (2018): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.6n.1p.36.

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The objective of this paper is to investigate how Chinua Achebe uses myth making as an attempt to address the leadership problem of his country, Nigeria. Many writers have identified leadership as the greatest problem of many countries in Africa. Consequently, Achebe uses symbolism and a language full of violence to portray the levels of corruption and abuse of power in the novel. In this paper, we present a myth criticism of Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah by looking at how the novelist deconstructs Biblical and traditional stories to show that women should be given a greater political role

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Olusola, LAWAL M. "Language, Gender and Power in Chinua Achebe’s—There Was a Country and Chimamanda Adiche’s—Half of a Yellow Sun." Global Research in Higher Education 2, no. 2 (2019): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/grhe.v2n2p82.

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<em>The interconectivity of language in the analysis of ideological schemas of gender and power is remarkable. In every piece of texts, language is employed as an expression of ideology. Hence, there is no linguistic expression that is ideologically empty. Language is inspirable from the gender and power preoccupations of Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country and Chimamanda Adiche’s Half of a Yellow Sun. In this paper, it is made succinct that both Achebe and Adichie deploy their English linguistic prowess with their traditional Igbo language colorations as an expression of power and gende

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Islam, Momtajul. "Struggle to Liberate a Nascent Nation from the Corrupt Native Ruling Class and Create a Distinctive Postcolonial Identity: A Case Study of Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 3 (2019): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575//aiac.alls.v.10n.3p.117.

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This paper investigates Achebe’s portrayal of postcolonial African society in his postcolonial novel A Man of the People with its societal struggles. A newly emerged native middle class played a somehow contradictory role as a social element in two different phases of colonialism, that is, colonial and postcolonial Africa. Initially, their discontent with the governance of colonial powers was principally voiced by this native class. However, the same social class reigned over these nascent African countries after independence. This privileged section of postcolonial native society replaced the

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Moran. "Achebe on Conrad." Research in African Literatures 51, no. 4 (2021): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.51.4.05.

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Bayeza, Ifa. "Remembering Chinua Achebe." Callaloo 36, no. 2 (2013): 223–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2013.0117.

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Achebe, Chinua. "Achebe on editing." World Literature Written in English 27, no. 1 (1987): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17449858708588997.

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Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ wa. "Mazrui and Achebe." Wasafiri 28, no. 3 (2013): 3–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2013.804974.

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Staphorst, Luan. ""The Language of the Eye Is Not the Language of the Ear": English, Translationality, and (Dis)Similarities between Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Devil on the Cross." Research in African Literatures 54, no. 2 (2024): 58–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.00004.

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ABSTRACT: Against the backdrop of the 60th anniversary of the African Writers Conference and the perennial question of English as an "African language," this article investigates the ways in which English has been used within the literary writings of Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. An overview of the (seemingly) divergent views on English articulated by Achebe and Ngũgĩ is presented, and two of their novels, namely Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Ngũgĩ's Devil on the Cross , are then situated within the frame of translationality. Extracts from the two novels are comparatively analyzed and

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OKOYE, Chike, and Ikechukwu Emmanuel ASIKA. "Totems and Pantheons: Paradigmatic Muses in Achebe’s Poetry." Nile Journal of English Studies 1, no. 1 (2016): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.20321/nilejes.v1i1.36.

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<p>Poetry is arguably the most ancient, direct and forceful genre of literature; whether written or oral. African’s foremost novelist and widely acclaimed father of literature, Nigeria’s Chinua Achebe, is mostly known for his prose works, especially the novel Things Fall Apart. Little comparatively, is known of his poetry. But the fact remains that Achebe is a good poet as he is widely recognized as a good novelist. Although the scale of preference tilts more to his prose works than poetry nevertheless; he made lasting impressions and remarks with his poems which are worthy of note. The

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Ekundayo, Omowumi Bode Steve, and Abiola Olubunmi Akinbobola. "SYMBOLIC AND PROPHETIC SYNTAGMAS IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH." English Review: Journal of English Education 4, no. 2 (2016): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.25134/erjee.v4i2.333.

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This essay discusses Achebe’s delineation of characters, events and use of language in Anthills of the Savannah (AS) as symbolic and prophetic syntagmas which later manifested in some real life personalities and socio-political phenomena in Africa and Nigeria, the setting of the novel. The primary source of data is Anthills of the Savannah. Secondary source and the internet were also consulted for the theoretical background and literature review. Grammatical structures and literary features were extracted and analyzed to show their associative and symbolic links with real life events which occ

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Rahayu, Mundi. "Women in Achebe’s Novel “Things Fall Apart”." Register Journal 3, no. 1 (2016): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18326/rgt.v3i1.37-50.

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This paper explores the image of women in Chinua Achebe novel’s Things Fall Apart. As the prominent postcolonial writer, Achebe has a vivid expression describing the social cultural values of the Ibo community in Nigeria, Africa. Analysis of the novel is done through the perspective of postcolonial feminism. Postcolonial feminism finds the relation and intersection between Postcolonialism and feminism. This interplay is interesting to observe. The findings show that in traditional patriarchal culture as in the novel, women are portrayed happy, harmonious members of the community, even when the

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Šešlak, Mirko. "THE DOUBLE VISION OF JOSEPH CONRAD: „HEART OF DARKNESS“, A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS." Lipar XXI, no. 73 (2020): 113–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.46793/lipar73.113s.

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This article aims to explore the background of the dispute started by Chinua Achebe in his famous essay “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”. The novel in ques- tion has become the subject of the dispute on whether it is deserving of being considered a great work of art. The reasons behind Achebe’s claim that it is not are the dehumanization of Africans found in various scenes throughout the novel, as well as the depiction of Africa itself as the barbaric and hostile other to civilized Europe. As in any such claim, while some support it, others find it faulty. There are t

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Okoth Opondo, Sam. "Meditations on the Sacrificial Egg." Revista Debates 15, no. 3 (2021): 158–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22456/1982-5269.120011.

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Esta meditação mediada por texto sobre o colonialismo, a razão etnológica e a dinâmica do encontro e reconhecimento prossegue através da leitura do conto The Sacrificial Egg, de Chinua Acheb, juntamente com uma série de textos filosóficos, ficcionais e etnológicos. Atentando a como Achebe trata as questões de conversão, imunidade/comunidade, a passagem de crenças, maldições e conhecimento de uma geração para outra (ou mesmo para estranhos), também ofereço algumas reflexões sobre a política do conhecimento, gênero, citação/atribuição, e a ética da coabitação.

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Ajala, Adeola Toyosi Ph.D., Olaolu Peter Oluwasanmi, Adewumi Raphael Adeyanju, and Adebanjo Adebagbo. "Post-Colonial Critique in Nigeria and its disillusionment: A Speech Act Analysis of Chinua Achebe's There was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra." GAS Journal of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (GASJAHSS) 3, no. 2 (2025): 100–115. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15371768.

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This study examined the post-colonial disillusionment in Nigeria through a critical analysis of Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra. Employing Speech Act, Trauma and Identity theories as analytical frameworks, the research explored how Achebe’s narrative enunciates the complexities of identity and historical trauma within the context of Nigeria's post-colonial setting. Drawing mainly on J.L. Austin’s (1962), John Searle’s (1969) and Bach and Harnish’s (1979) Speech Act Theory, the study explores how Achebe’s performative and con

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Kakarla, Dr Ujjwala. "Psychological Realism in the Arrow of God --- Chinua Achebe." Saudi Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 8, no. 09 (2023): 284–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/sjhss.2023.v08i09.006.

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Chinua Achebe’s, the third novel, Arrow of God centralizes around the struggle for power and authority between the African and Colonial traditions. Ezeulu, the Chief Priest of God Ulu is the protagonist who is in quest of wielding an absolute power throughout the novel. It is the study of psychology of power which incessantly switches directions, but can never be wholly acquired or seized. Achebe wavers between representing the good sides and bad sides of Christianity and Igbo religion reflecting his own ambivalence and split consciousness. To apply Freud’s theory to Achebe, we can say that Ac

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Ekpo, Denis. "Chinua Achebe’s Early Anti-Imperialism in the Court of Postcolonial Theory." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 27, no. 2 (2005): 27–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/120ts.

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Chinua Achebe is well known for his trenchantly anti-imperialist literary positions. In his critical interventions, he excoriates the unrepentant Conradian eye of imperialistically minded foreign critics of Africa’s artistic works. However the current postcolonial turn in both critical practice and cross-cultural sensibilities has brought about some drastic redescriptions of both imperialism and anti-imperialism. This paper returns to some of the earliest construction sites of Achebe’s anti-colonial discourse in order to examine, in the light of postcolonial theory, the strengths and aporias o

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Casimir, Komenan. "Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Seminal Novel in African Literature." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 4, no. 3 (2020): p55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v4n3p55.

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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is an influential novel in African literature for three reasons. First, it is a novel meant to promote African culture; second, it is a narrative about where things went wrong with Africans; and third, it is a prose text which contributed to Achebe’s worldwide recognition. It contains Achebe’s rejection of the degrading representation of Africans by European writers, and fosters Africa’s traditional values and humanism. The excesses of Igbo customs led the protagonist to flagrant misuse of power. The novel’s scriptural innovations bring fame to Achebe who is consider

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Chagas, Alessandra Santos. "Literatura, imagem e resistência: o mundo se despedaça e o resgate das memórias ancestrais." Sankofa (São Paulo) 15, no. 26 (2022): 74–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.1983-6023.sank.2022.194849.

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Este artigo tem como objetivo investigar o papel da literatura na representação da relação entre colonizado e colonizador a partir do romance O mundo se despedaça (2009), do escritor nigeriano Chinua Achebe; além de estudar como essa relação altera a sociedade colonizada e seus costumes. Para isso, a pesquisa teve como aporte teórico os trabalhos de Bonnici (2005), Fanon (2008/1952), Santos (2008), Kilomba (2019) e Césaire (2020/1950); e contou com a leitura da Trilogia Africana, de Chinua Achebe, além de seus textos críticos. Com isso, observou-se que a partir da literatura de Achebe, conside

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Ha, Sangbok. "The Suggestions for the Restoration of Failed Leadership in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God and Anthills of the Savannah." British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea 152 (March 30, 2024): 61–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.21297/ballak.2024.152.61.

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Examining the internal problems that cause chaos in Nigeria, this paper tries to look into Chinua Achebe’s suggestions for overcoming it in his novels, Arrow of God and Anthills of the Savannah. Especially, the paper makes a close study of the failure of leadership to which Achebe pays attention as the core of the internal problems. The failure of leadership that can be stated first is resulted from the leaders’ limitations and attributes in both novels. Those are their incompetency, irresponsibility, and lust for power and interests. Emphasizing that the failure of leadership is due not only

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MERABTI, Zohra, and Halima BENZOUKH. "RECONSTRUCTING WOMEN IDENTITY IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH." International Journal of Education and Language Studies 04, no. 04 (2023): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2791-9323.4-4.2.

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African literature is the mirror of African community in which African social reality is depicted. Gender issue is one of the main themes that are a matter of interest to the majority of African authors. They portrayed woman character in patriarchal African society in which male hegemony is a stereotype. In this sense, Chinua Achebe as well as his fellows did not stray from the rule in their writings. In Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God, woman is considered as a second class citizen, and gender inequality is a predominant aspect. However, Achebe’s narratives shifted from covering and ignorin

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Betu, Donat Nkuna. "A Linguistic Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Rhetoric and Stylistic Study." RADINKA JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW 1, no. 2 (2023): 128–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.56778/rjslr.v1i2.365.

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This article analyses linguistically Achebe’s style and rhetoric in Things Fall Apart. In particular, his use of ‘’African English’’, drawing on proverbs, tales, and idioms of the Igbo culture, some borrowings from his native tongue, and some writing techniques used. This novel is written by Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian writer, and he interposes Western linguistic forms and literary traditions to record and preserve African Oral traditions as well as to subvert the colonialist language and culture.

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Nkeiruka, Emodi Livina. "Transitivity Analysis of Proverbs in Achebe’s A Man of the People." International Journal of English Linguistics 11, no. 5 (2021): 77. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v11n5p77.

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The language of literary texts is adorned with proverbs, a cultural element which to some extent has become significant in the growth and development of African literature and in the portrayal of meaning assigned by the writer. This paper explores the relationship between linguistic structures and culturally constructed meaning in Chinua Achebe&rsquo;s novel A Man of the people by critically examining the transitivity of proverbs used in the work. This study is anchored on Halliday&rsquo;s Systemic Functional Grammar. The analysis reveals that Achebe uses more material processes, follo

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Boehmer, Elleke. "Chinua Achebe: A Tribute." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 129, no. 2 (2014): 237–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2014.129.2.237.

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If it is true that legends never die but only grow and transmogrify, then the death of the African literary giant Chinua Achebe, at the age of eighty-two, on 21 March 2013, will do nothing to dim his assured status as one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Two months after his death, he was buried in his hometown, Ogidi, in the state of Anambra, Nigeria, after a week of funeral rites in the national and state capitals, as well as at Nsukka University, where he worked as an academic in the early 1970s. The ceremonies marked Nigeria's sense that here was a writer whose visio

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Moore, Gerald. "Chinua Achebe: A Retrospective." Research in African Literatures 32, no. 3 (2001): 29–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2001.32.3.29.

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Kortenaar. "Afterword: Arrows of Achebe." Research in African Literatures 49, no. 4 (2018): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.49.4.09.

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Irele, F. Abiola. "Chinua Achebe as Poet." Transition: An International Review 100 (July 2009): 44–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/trs.2009.-.100.44.

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Dawes, Kwame, and Ezenwa-Ohaeto. "Chinua Achebe: A Biography." World Literature Today 72, no. 3 (1998): 671. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154200.

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