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African Literature
Chinua Achebe: Father of Modern African Literature
There is a habit of speaking about Chinua Achebe as though he were a statue, the man who wrote the one African novel everyone is assigned in school. The fuller figure is stranger and larger: the novelist across three generations, the critic who took on the Western canon, the editor who published a whole tradition into being.
Summer Reading List for High Schoolers: 16 Books Worth Your Time
Most high school summer reading lists are the same list, mostly American, mostly the same handful of authors. This one is built differently: 16 books from Senegal to Soviet Russia to Mexico, organized by grade level, that make the world feel larger.
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe: Summary, Analysis & Legacy
Some books are monuments; a few are doorways. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is the door through which the whole tradition of modern African literature is entered, and it refuses every easy sympathy it seems to invite. A reckoning with a culture worth grieving and a man who helped author his own fall.
Modern African Literature: Key Authors, Themes, and Trends
A continent that gave the world its oldest stories was long expected to sit quietly and be described by others. Modern African literature is the patient correction of that arrangement, from Achebe's Igbo villages to Okorafor's African futures. This is the map to that argument.
