English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1703 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Chinua Achebe
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The idea
Chinua Achebe, born in Nigeria in nineteen thirty and shaped by both Igbo tradition and colonial Christianity, is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His African Trilogy is Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God. He criticized Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
In practice
Igbo and English; a trilogy.
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