ThingsFallApart

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• On the “Fathering” of African Literature

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 507
  Responding to Chinua Achebe’s recent rejection of the title of “father of African literature” , Ghanaian Nii Ayikwei Parkes cheers him on. The comments below Parkes’ post - particularly by African Writing editor Afam Akeh - keep the debate afloat: As soon as I heard about Chinua Achebe’s rejection of ...
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• ANAMBRA 2010 : Signs Ominous, Says Achebe – The Guardian

  
  Nigerian Bulletin! — Authority: 149
  Barely two months and a week to the February 6, 2010 governorship election in Anambra State, all does not seem well for the exercise that may shape the outcome of the 2011 general elections in the country.This is the verdict of literary icon and international statesman, Professor Chinua Achebe Ñ the David and ...
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• ‘Other Boleyn’ Director Takes ‘First Grader’ Back to School

  
  Film School Rejects — Authority: 668
  I get the feeling that Africa is going to be a go-to for stories in the coming decade. It’s already in the public mindset of news and current events, and films like Hotel Rwanda and the upcoming Invictus (I’m not really counting District 9 …) have already taken audiences to the continent. I’m guessing ...
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• Undoubtably the result of a good womans love

  
  Mike Beversluis — Authority: 134
  Ice Cube, before and after.
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• Achebe: I’m Not the “Father of Modern African Literature”

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 507
  A fresh report from the Guardian’s Alison Flood: Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has spoken out about his dislike at being labelled “the father of modern African literature”. The author of the multi-million bestseller Things Fall Apart, Achebe was given the label by Nadine Gordimer as he was awarded the Man ...
  3 weeks ago

• Chinua Achebe’s First Interview at Brown University

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 507
  Alert! Brown University ’s student newspaper is the first to interview Chinua Achebe on his recent move there from Bard College . Here’s the paper’s Nandini Jayakrishna’s Q&A with the literary giant: The Herald: You were a professor at Bard College in New York for 19 years. What drew you to Brown? ...
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• Stuck in My Head: Built to Spill – “Things Fall Apart”

  
  the OCMD — Authority: 126
  Built to Spill - “Things Fall Apart” Off the latest album from Built to Spill, There is No Enemy, the band’s seventh album and first since 2006’s You In Reverse . “…It doesn’t matter if you’re good or smart. God damn it, things fall apart.”
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• Podcast and Video: Chinua Achebe Against Blindness, and In Conversation with K Anthony Appiah

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 507
  Chinua Achebe, celebrated author, needs no introduction. This year he releases his first major work in decades - The Education of a British Protected Child , which offers “reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on the author’s lifelong ...
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