Chinua Achebe: father of the African novel
Born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe in the Igbo town of Ogidi, Eastern Nigeria, in 1930, Achebe was educated and then taught English at what is now the University of Ibadan before joining the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation. Professor Achebe went on to publish groundbreaking novels that explore themes of African culture and its wilful debasement and displacement by colonialism, lectured worldwide co-founded and directed Nigerian publishing houses won the Man Booker International Prize and Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize and received honorary degrees from over 30 universities worldwide.
“In the end, I began to understand. There is such a thing as absolute power over narrative. Those who secure this privilege for themselves can arrange stories about others pretty much where, and as, they like.”
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