Whenever people have asked me which among my novels is my favourite I have always evaded a direct answer, being strongly of the mind that in sheer invidiousness that question is fully comparable to asking a man to list his children in the order in which he loves them. A paterfamilias worth his salt will, if he must, speak about the peculiar attractiveness of each child.
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One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.
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Chinua Achebe (42)
Birth: | 16th November, 1930 |
Death: | 21st March, 2013 |
Nationality: | Nigerian |
Profession: | Critic, Novelist, Poet, Professor |
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Chinua Achebe was born in the Igbo village of Ogidi, Nigeria Protectorate. He was a Nigerian novelist, poet and professor and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart was considered his magnum opus, and is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He wrote his novels in English and defended the use of English, a "language of colonisers", in African literature. From 2009 until his death, he served as David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in the United States.
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