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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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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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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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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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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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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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BROWN, S. "Chinua Achebe: a biography." African Affairs 98, no. 392 (1999): 433–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a008059.

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Ogede, Ode S., and Umelo Ojinmah. "Chinua Achebe: New Perspectives." World Literature Today 66, no. 4 (1992): 761. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40148780.

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Irele, Abiola. "Homage to Chinua Achebe." Research in African Literatures 32, no. 3 (2001): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2001.0070.

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Moore, Gerald. "Chinua Achebe: A Retrospective." Research in African Literatures 32, no. 3 (2001): 29–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2001.0073.

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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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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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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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Musyoka, Boniface Muthui, and Peter Muhoro Dr. "Depiction of Female gender in Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart and A man of the people." International Journal of Social Science And Human Research 05, no. 10 (2022): 4513–18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7189006.

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This study sought to investigate Achebe’s ideological change from male-oriented view to feministic point of view. A significant number of critics argue that Chinua Achebe’s earlier novels such as Things Fall Apart depict women as being passive in the society. This study, therefore presents a depiction female gender in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart and A man of the people. The study is based on the premise that A man of the people reflects Chinua Achebe’s change from traditional African Literature to modern fiction. The study was guided by one main objective; t

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Gambhire, Prashant U. "International Journal of English and World Languages & Literature Paradigm Shift in International Research." International Journal of English and World Languages & Literature Paradigm Shift in International Research 1, no. 1 (2024): 9–11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14542621.

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Globally, readers have been really drawn to African literature. In African literature, nearly every writer has focused on the interaction between Africa and the West. African writings capture the rich complexity and diversity of post-colonial African realities. Writers who have explored social and cultural identity through their history and customs include Wole Soyinka, T. M. Aluko, Chinua Achebe, Ayi Armah, and James Ngugi. By depicting the misery of African people, societal ills, corruption, political injustice, and economic imbalance, it has been fulfilling social purposes. As a result of c

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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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Moore, David Chioni, and Analee Heath. "A Conversation with Chinua Achebe." Transition: An International Review 100 (July 2009): 12–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/trs.2009.-.100.12.

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Martuscelli, Lívia Pacini. "“Paz Civil”, de Chinua Achebe." Cadernos de Literatura em Tradução, no. 23 (July 12, 2021): 306–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2359-5388.i23p306-316.

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Nesta colaboração, propomos uma tradução para o conto Civil Peace, de Chinua Achebe, inédito em publicações editoriais no Brasil até o momento. A narrativa, escrita logo após o fim da guerra civil nigeriana, traz questões linguísticas interessantes, como a reprodução do pidgin da Nigéria na fala de personagens contraventores.

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Rowell, Charles H. "An Interview With Chinua Achebe." Callaloo 13, no. 1 (1990): 86. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2931612.

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Okafor, Clement Abiaziem. "Joseph Conrad and Chinua Achebe." Journal of Black Studies 19, no. 1 (1988): 17–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002193478801900102.

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Ngaboh-Smart, Francis. "The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia (review)." Research in African Literatures 37, no. 1 (2006): 167. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2006.0001.

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Achebe, Chinua, and Kay Bonetti. "An Interview with Chinua Achebe." Missouri Review 12, no. 1 (1989): 61–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mis.1989.0020.

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Thiong’o, Ngũgĩ wa. "My Encounters With Chinua Achebe." Journal of Asian and African Studies 48, no. 6 (2013): 760–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909613506456.

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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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Oliveira, Bruno Ribeiro. "Literatura, Linguagem e Descolonização em Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (Quênia) e Chinua Achebe (Nigéria)." Revista Discente Ofícios de Clio 5, no. 9 (2021): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.15210/clio.v5i9.19248.

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A história de literatura africana contemporânea está repleta de debates que tratam de sua utilidade frente aos povos de África e a natureza dessa literatura. Através das ideias de dois escritores africanos, Chinua Achebe e Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, este artigo revisita a história das ideias desses autores em respeito à literatura africana e sua linguagem de escrita. Tratamos de perceber como dois autores da mesma geração, porém de locais diferentes, Nigéria e Quênia, respectivamente, pensaram a produção literária e sua função em África no período pós-colonial.Palavras-chave: Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)

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Mr, C. Pradeep. "Postcolonial Strain in the Writings of Chinua Achebe and J.M. Coetzee." Postcolonial Strain in the Writings of Chinua Achebe and J.M. Coetzee 7, Sp 1 (2019): 22–24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2588188.

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Comparative study shows a broader way of looking at unseen myth and search  for the hidden myth without any border. The violent effect of past has enduring consequences on people’s identities and their wellbeing. Exploring the similar matrix of memory and trauma has become the concern of writers like Chinua Achebe and J.M. Coetzee. The life and laughter of the colonized people is unheard because of the memory and trauma occupied in the mind of victims. Writers like Chinua Achebe and J.M. Coetzee have not only endeavored to express the memories but also have attracted international a

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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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S.Ranjith, Kumar. "A Study on Culture in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart." Shanlax International Journal of English 7, no. 1 (2019): 155–57. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3457055.

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Chinua Achebe is a father of modern African Literature, who was awarded the Nigerian National order of merit Award in 1979. It’s the highest academic award in Nigeria. He is a fertile writer and versatile genius of African literature. His work are based on Igbo society, culture, traditions, beliefs etc., Things Fall Apart is the  rst work by Chinua Achebe which deals and portrays about the most crucial Igbo culture based on ancient African culture that encompasses polytheistic religion, forming tradition and attire and foods. The Igbo society is rich in culture, festivals, ceremonious o

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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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Talekar, P. R. "History Through Fiction: Chinua Achebe A Case In Point." International Journal of Advance and Applied Research 5, no. 18 (2024): 30–32. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11654627.

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Chinua Achebe, the father of African Literature in English, was one of the most prominent Nigerian writers who dedicated his novels to represent the psychological, historical and cultural conflicts that Africans experienced as a result of the European intrusion in to African life. History plays a prominent role in postcolonial novel. The five novels of Chinua Achebe cover the Nigerian history from the pre-colonial days to the late 80s. Each novel is set in a particular period of Nigerian history

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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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Rowell, Charles Henry. "Listening to Chinua Achebe: A Memory." Callaloo 36, no. 2 (2013): 226–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2013.0125.

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Arana, R. Victoria. "Introduction: The Chinua Achebe Special Section." Callaloo 25, no. 2 (2002): 497–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cal.2002.0051.

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Cobham-Sander, Rhonda. "Chasms and Silences: For Chinua Achebe." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 129, no. 2 (2014): 240–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/s0030812900168208.

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Kusumawardani, Maria Regina Anna Hadi. "Westernization and Colonization of the Mind in Chinua Achebe’s “Dead Men’s Path”." OKARA: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra 15, no. 2 (2021): 155–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.19105/ojbs.v15i2.5168.

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British occupation in Nigeria has brought several impacts to the native land and also the indigenous people. Westernization and colonization of the mind are two inseparable effects of colonialism. These two issues are oftentimes depicted in literary works focusing on colonialism as their theme. The aim of this study is to analyze the issues of westernization and colonization of the mind raised in Chinua Achebe's "Dead Men's Path." The data were taken from quotes that prove the existence of these issues from a short story entitled “Dead Men’s Path” by Chinua Achebe and analyzed them using Homi

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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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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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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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Bani-Khair, Baker Mohammad Jamil, Mohamad Helmi Al Ahmad, Majed AbdulKarim, and Mahmoud Alkhazaleh. "Social and Political Corruption in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958): A Critical Study." International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation 6, no. 4 (2023): 110–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2023.6.4.14.

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This paper studies the idea of the social and political corruption in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) from a critical view point. It focuses on Okonkow's characterization levels, and highlights the ontological, individualistic, political, and social aspects of the main character's aspects. Achebe's novel is a rich example of the social and political corruption of the tribal system that is built on myths, tribal mentality and physical prowess. Such a masterpiece by the Nigerian Novelist, China Achebe, serves as an authentic representation of a particular time period and setting when Ni

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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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Juma, Benson Wabwile. "Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart." Jumuga Journal of Education, Oral Studies, and Human Sciences 8, no. 1 (2025): 1–7. https://doi.org/10.35544/jjeoshs.v8i112.

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The research article is a critical evaluation of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart through the lens of postcolonial theory, trying to explain the novel's resistance to colonialist discourse and its recuperation of native African identity. The research article clarifies colonialism, postcolonialism, and decolonization, establishing the theoretical framework necessary for an educated critique of Achebe's novel. Using qualitative research based on detailed textual analysis supported by secondary scholarly literature, the paper evaluates fundamental postcolonial theoretical notions of otherness, o

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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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Salami, Ali, and Bamshad Hekmatshoar Tabari. "IGBO NAMING COSMOLOGY AND NAMESYMBOLIZATION IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S TETRALOGY." Folia linguistica et litteraria XI, no. 33 (2020): 39–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.33.2020.2.

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Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God and A Man of the People, the first four novels by Chinua Achebe, the contemporary Nigerian novelist, are among the most outstanding works of African postcolonial literature. As a matter of fact, each of these four novels focuses on a different colonial or postcolonial phase of history in Nigeria and through them Achebe intends to provide an authentic record of the negative and positive impacts of ‘hybridity’ on different aspects of the life of native subjects. Briefly stated, Achebe is largely successful in taking advantages of variable discur

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Salami, Ali, and Bamshad Hekmatshoar Tabari. "IGBO NAMING COSMOLOGY AND NAMESYMBOLIZATION IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S TETRALOGY." Folia linguistica et litteraria XI, no. 33 (2020): 39–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.31902/fll.33.2020.2.

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Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God and A Man of the People, the first four novels by Chinua Achebe, the contemporary Nigerian novelist, are among the most outstanding works of African postcolonial literature. As a matter of fact, each of these four novels focuses on a different colonial or postcolonial phase of history in Nigeria and through them Achebe intends to provide an authentic record of the negative and positive impacts of ‘hybridity’ on different aspects of the life of native subjects. Briefly stated, Achebe is largely successful in taking advantages of variable discur

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