Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. Things Fall Apart tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo?s fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the first is ancient, concerns the clash of cultures and the destruction of Okonkwo's world with the arrival of aggressive European...

'Home and Exile' is Achebe's autobiographical work. In a series of literary and humorous reminiscences from his early years, Achebe speaks about his own intellectual formation under European schooling, and his personal search for his identity. Originally published: New York: Anchor, 2001

In 'The Education of a British-Protected Child', Chinua Achebe gives us a vivid, ironic and delicately nuanced portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its middle ground, interrogating both his happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and also the harsher truths of colonial rule.