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'The writer in whose company the prison walls fell down' Nelson Mandela Things fall apart tells two overlapping, intertwining stories, both of which

Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. But when he accidentally kills a cla

Includes "Things Fall Apart", "No Longer at Ease", and "Arrow of God". In "Things Fall Apart" the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, 'strong man' and trib

Asserts the author's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" only serves to perpetuate

He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others Electrifying essays on the history, complexity,

Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly un

Looking back at his own life and education, this book by the giant of African literature is a deeply personal and essential key for unlocking all of A

Sam, Chris en Ikem zijn al vrienden sinds ze bij elkaar op school zaten. Nu de dictator van hun fictieve West-Afrikaanse land Kangan bij een coup ontt

Things Fall Apart, tells of a troubled young African whose formal education separates him from his roots and makes him part of a corrupt ruling elite

'...The story is the tragedy of Okonkwo, an important man in the Igbo tribe in the days when white men were first appearing on the scene ... a very si

Achebe uses the 'fall' of one man, a descendent of the hero in Things Fall Apart, to depict the birth of a whole new age in Nigerian life - one ruled

As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M A Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. This work deals w

Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In t

Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both the author's happy memories of reading En

Chike was keen to visit the River Niger. He requested money from his uncle, who refused. Whilst in Onitsha, he washed cars and got the money. Whilst

Here, collected for the first time in Everyman's Library, are the three internationally acclaimed classic novels that comprise what has come to be kno