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BIOGRAPHY
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, Igbo novelist, was born in Ogidi, Nigeria. He is more commonly known as Chinua Achebe. His father was a teacher in a missionary school. He was educated at the Government College in Umuahia and the University College of Ibadan. After working briefly as a teacher,
he joined the Nigerian Broadcasting Company. He later taught in several universities and cofounded a publishing company with Christopher Okigbo.
Achebe published his first novel, THINGS FALL APART, when he was 28. He is also a noted essayist and became famous for his 1977 collection MORNING YET ON CREATION DAY. He has been awarded the Margaret Wrong Prize, the New Statesman Jock Campbell Prize, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
CHRONOLOGY
1930 He was born in Ogidi, Nigeria. (November 16)
1944 He attended Government College in Umuahia.
1953 He received his B.A. From the University College of Ibadan.
1954 He joined the Nigerian Broadcasing Company in Lagos.
1958 THINGS FALL APART
1960 NO LONGER AT EASE
1961 He became director of External Broadcasting at the Nigerian Broadcasting Company.
1962 THE SACRIFICIAL EGG AN OTHER STORIES
1964 ARROW OF GOD
1966 A MAN OF THE PEOPLE; CHIKE AND THE RIVER
1967 He entered the Biafran government service.; He cofounded a publishing company with Christopher Okigbo.
1969 He toured the United States, lecturing at various universities.
1970 He became director of Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. And Nwankwo-Ifejika Ltd.
1971 BEWARE, SOUL BROTHER; He became editor of the journal OKIKE.
1972 GIRLS AT WAR; HOW THE LEOPARD GOT HIS CLAWS
1973 CHRISTMAS IN BIAFRA AND OTHER POEMS
1975 MORNING YET ON CREATION DAY
1976 He became professor of Engish at the University of Nigeria.
1977 THE DRUM; THE FLUTE
1980 LITERATURE AND SOCIETY
1981 He retired from the University of Nigeria.
1983 THE TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA
1984 He founded the magazine UWA NDI IGBO.
1985 He became professor emeritus at the University of Nigeria.
1986 THE WORLD OF OGBANJE
1987 ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNA
1988 THE UNIVERSITY AND THE LEADERSHIP FACTOR IN NIGERIAN POLITICS
1989 HOPES AND IMPEDIMENTS; NIGERIAN TOPICS
1990 He was in a car accident which paralyzed him from the waist down.
1992 THE HEINEMANN BOOK OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN SHORT STORIES, ed.
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