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CHINUA ACHEBE - GEBRAUCHT THINGS FALL APART (PE...

Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930. He was raised in the large village of Ogidi  one of
the first centers of Anglican missionary work in Eastern Nigeria  and was a graduate of
University College  Ibadan. His early career in radio ended abruptly in 1966  when he left his
post as Director of External Broadcasting in Nigeria during the national upheaval that led to
the Biafran War. Achebe joined the Biafran Ministry of Information and represented Biafra on
various diplomatic and fund-raising missions. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the
University of Nigeria  Nsukka  and began lecturing widely abroad. For over fifteen years  he
was the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. He was
Professor at the David and Marianna Fisher University and Professor of Africana studies at
Brown University. Chinua Achebe wrote over twenty books - novels  short stories  essays and
collections of poetry - and received numerous honours from around the world  including the
Honourary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Letters  as well as honourary
doctorates from more than thirty colleges and universities. He was also the recipient of
Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement  the Nigerian National Merit Award. In
2007  he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. Chinua Achebe died in 2013.

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