A selective bibliography of open access articles on Nigerian novelist and story writer Chinua Achebe, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Ekwe Ekwe, Herbert. A substantial introductory article on Chinua Achebe from the Literary Encyclopedia
Ezenwa-Ohaeto. A review of Chinua Achebe: A Biography in London Review of Books, Nov. 12, 1998, reviewed by Lewis Nkosi
Fuchs, Jacob. "Postcolonial mock-epic: Abrogation and appropriation." Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall 2000
Gikandi, Simon. A review of Gikandi's Reading Chinua Achebe: Language and Ideology in Fiction. First page of article only. Reviewed by Ode S. Ogede in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 62, No. 3, Rights over Land: Categories and Controversies (1992), pp. 457-459
Hoegberg, David. "Principle and practice: The logic of cultural violence in Achebe's Things Fall Apart." In College Literature, Winter 1999
Mezu, Rose Ure. "Women In Achebe's World," in Womanist Theory and Research, 1995
Ogunbiyi, Yemi. A review of Ogunbiyi's Perspectives on Nigerian Literature: 1700 to the Present. First page of article only. Reviewed by O. S. Ogede in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 60, No. 4 (1990), pp. 555-558.
Okpewho, Isidore, ed. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook (Oxford University Press, 2003). Publisher's web site
Okechukwu, Chinwe Christiana. Achebe the Orator: The Art of Persuasion in Chinua Achebe's Novels (Greenwood Press, 2001). Publisher's web site
Snyder, Carey "The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Ethnographic Readings: Narrative Complexity in Things Fall Apart," College Literature, Spring 2008.
Strong-Leek, Linda. "Reading as a Woman: Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart and Feminist Criticism," in African Studies Quarterly 5(2): 2
Wise, Christopher. "The garden trampled: Or, the liquidation of African culture in V.S. Naipaul's A Bend in the River." In College Literature, Oct 1996. On Joseph Conrad's impact on Chinua Achebe and V.S. Naipaul.
"After Empire: Chinua Achebe and the great African novel," by Ruth Franklin, The New Yorker, May 26, 2008
"Why Chinua Achebe, the Eagle on the Iroko, is Africa's writer of the century," USA Africa Online
An overview of Chinua Achebe from Professor George Landow's Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Web, includes critical articles about his novels, their themes, techniques, and cultural contexts
"Chinua Achebe: A Storyteller Far From Home," NY Times, Jan. 10, 2000, by Somini Sengupta
Cornell University web site on Things Fall Apart includes a podcast interview with Professor Isaac Kramnick and Michele Moody-Williams and links to a panel webcast at Cornell, 8/21/05, on the novel
A biography of Chinua Achebe from the Books and Writers web site, the Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland
A teaching guide for Chinua Achebe, grades 9-12, from Edsitement, National Endowment for the Humanities
News story, "Literary giant Chinua Achebe returns 'home' from U.S., to love and adulation of community." From USAfrica Online
YouTube video of Chinua Achebe speaking at Harvard, 09/22/07, and links to several other Achibe video clips
Achebe, Chinua. Some comments by Chinua Achebe, "On the Role of the African Writer," provided by Professor Robert Fletcher
Achebe, Chinua. "Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart Turns 50 This Year." Interview. "On the eve of his PEN American Center celebration, the Nigerian author sits down with the Village Voice," by Carol Cooper, February 19th, 2008
Achebe, Chinua. An interview with Chinua Achebe in Conjunctions, Fall 1991, by Bradford Morrow
Achebe, Chinua. An interview with Chinua Achebe in the Atlantic Monthly, August 2, 2000, by Katie Bacon (removed/restored!)
List of Achebe papers and manuscripts at Harvard University's Houghton Library
An extensive bibliography of open-access online material on African Literature and Writers, from the library at Stanford University.
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