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An Image of Africa/ The Trouble with Nigeria by Chinua Achebe
$12.99 NZD
Category: Politics | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Beautifully written yet highly controversial, "An Image of Africa" asserts Achebe's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. Also included is "The Trouble with Nigeria", Achebe' ...Show more
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat - from his rivals in the tribe, from those in the white government and even from his own family. Yet he still feels he must be untouchable - su ...Show more
Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is the classic collection of Chinua Achebe's short fiction, written over twenty years and drawn from literary journals and magazines, to be made available to the wider public. The earliest, "Marriage is a Private Affair" (1952), dates back to his student days at Ibadan, Nigeria, while the latest, " ...Show more
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
$33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be backhanders and corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes that are offer ...Show more
The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe
$70.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Here, collected for the first time in Everyman
The Education of a British-protected Child by Chinua Achebe
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first thirty years of his life, before Nigeria's independence in 1960, Ac ...Show more
The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong'o; Uzodinma Iweala (Introduction by); Chinua Achebe (Contribution by)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin African Writers Ser.
A 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legendary work of African literature, this moving and eye-opening novel lucidly captures the drama of a people and culture whose world has been overturned. The River Between explores life ...Show more
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
The defining experience of Chinua Achebe's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. For more than forty years Achebe was silent on those terrible years, until he produced this towering reckoning with one of modern Africa's most fateful events. A marriage of history, remembrance, p ...Show more
There Was a Country A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Chinua Achebe, the author of "Things Fall Apart", is a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. "There Was a Country" is his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also known as t ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
$26.99 NZD
Category: FICTION | Reading Level: very good
"Things Fall Apart" tells two intertwining stories, both centering on Okonkwo, a "strong man" of an Ibo village in Nigeria. The first, a powerful fable of the immemorial conflict between the individual and society, traces Okonkwo's fall from grace with the tribal world. The second, as modern as the firs ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West Africa and he is one of the most powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show weakness to anyone - even if the only way he can master his feelings is w ...Show more
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A compelling story of one man's battle to protect his community against the forces of change, the Penguin Classics edition of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is introduced by Biyi Bandele. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. ...Show more
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