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things fall apart

Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeriain in1930, the son of a teacher in a missionary school. His parents, though they installed in him many of the values of their traditional Igbo culture, were devout evangelical Protestants. In 1944 Achebe attended Government College in Umuahia., he was also educated at the University College of Ibadan, where he studied English, history and theology. At the university Achebe rejected his British name and took his indigenous name Chinua. In 1953 he graduated with a BA. Before joining the Nigerian Broadcasting Company in Lagos in 1954 he traveled in Africa and America, and worked for a short time as a teacher. Achebe's first novel, “Things Fall Apart”, appeared in 1958. The story of a traditional village "big man" Okonkwo, and his downfall has been translated into some 50 languages. In the 1960s Achebe was the director of External Services in charge of the Voice of Nigeria. Achebe is currently a faculty member at Bard College, a liberal arts sch...

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