Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria, and was a graduate of University College, Ibadan. His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966, when he left his post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to the Biafran War. Achebe joined the Biafran Ministry of Information and represented Biafra on various diplomatic and fund-raising missions. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad. For over fifteen years, he was the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. He was Professor at the David and Marianna Fisher University and Professor of Africana studies at Brown University. Chinua Achebe wrote over twenty books - novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry - and received numerous honours from around the world, including the Honourary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as honourary doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. He was also the recipient of Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement, the Nigerian National Merit Award. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. Chinua Achebe died in 2013.

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1. 5/5

   Breddar ens perspektiv

   Denna är en innehållsrik och intressant bok. En beskrivning av kolonialismens början och igboernas (nigerianernas) traditioner från ett nigerianskt perspektiv vilket kan bredda ens eget perspektiv. Man får veta mer om de starka emotionella banden till ens "hem", vilket kan ha inträffat invånarna när dess länder blivit koloniserade.

   Tara B

   18 mars 2016
2. 3/5

   Onekligen en väldigt välskriven bok som trots sitt något händelsefattiga innehåll håller läsaren intresserad nästan hela tiden. Det räknas som en klassiker och är väl därför en bok man bör ha läst om man är litteraturintresserad!

   Jesus

   30 april 2013