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Chinua Achebe

October 2022

  • Aerial view over Lagos, Nigeria.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about Nigeria

    Fiction, poetry and history from an extraordinary country of great wealth and deep poverty, of huge promise and extremes of despair

May 2022

  • A woman places a banner next to a picture of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

    Imaginary regions: travel book ‘journeys’ to fictional literary locations

    Spanish anthology explores places created by authors such as Gabriel García Márquez and Chinua Achebe

March 2022

  • Madeline Miller has won the Orange Prize for fiction for her book The Songs of Achilles. Photo by Linda Nylind. 31/5/2012.

    The books of my life
    Madeline Miller: ‘Reading Ayn Rand was like being dipped in slime’

    The author of The Song of Achilles on discovering TS Eliot, her childhood love of James Herriot and the subversive genius of Chinua Achebe

March 2021

  • Sebastian Stan and Alexandra Daddario in the 2019 film version of We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels set in villages

    From Chinua Achebe to Agatha Christie and Shirley Jackson, these books play with our assumptions about small communities

September 2019

  • Vatican Museum<br>The School of Athens, Detail of a mural by Raphael painted for Pope Julius IIIn the center Plato (Leonardo da Vinci) discourses with Aristotle, 1509, Raphael, Room of the Segnatura, Vatican Museum. (Photo by: Godong/UIG via Getty Images)

    Further reading
    From Aristotle to Angela Davis: the best books about debate

    Whether it is a dispute between Agamemnon and Achilles or the colonisers and the colonised in Things Fall Apart, we can all learn techniques of persuasion from literature

August 2019

  • New York, NY - January 9: Author Chigozie Obioma stands for a photograph in New York City on January 9, 2019. Ramin Talaie for The Guardian

    Books that made me
    Chigozie Obioma: ‘I would rush to the library in my lunch break to read the Odyssey’

    The Booker prize nominated novelist on the King James Bible and finding comfort in books about birds

January 2018

  • A boy and a girl sit and read books in a mobile library in Lagos.

    Of course we have bookshops in Nigeria. But they’re for the lucky few

    Sede Alonge
    A silly question put to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie caused outrage. A silly question put to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie caused outrage. A little honest reflection on national priorities might also be in order, writes the Lagos-based lawyer Sede Alonge

October 2017

  • The late author Chinua Achebe at his home in Warwick

    Perspectives on decolonising and diversifying English teaching

    Letters: Guardian readers, teachers and academics respond to the controversy around the Cambridge university English syllabus

November 2016

  • Biafra rally, 2012, Inewi, Nigeria.

    Nigeria army denies killing 150 at Biafra demonstrations

    Authorities dismiss Amnesty International claim of excessive police force and troops killing secessionist backers at rallies

April 2016

  • Children's books
    No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe - review

    rishabh_space: ‘Achebe puts colonialism on trial in the name of Africa’

January 2016

  • Lagos, Nigeria

    The Writing Life Around the World by Electric Literature
    Be careless with your wishes: A Igoni Barrett on the writing life in Nigeria

    Nigerian author A Igoni Barrett recounts how a personal rebellion led him to writing – and to confronting his worse bully: his own country

December 2015

  • kurt

    Slaughterhouse 90210: where literature meets pop culture – in pictures

    Kanye West and Susan Sontag, Darth Vader and Hilary Mantel: after years of running a popular Tumblr mixing literature and pop culture, Maris Kreizman’s new book presents a carefully and provocatively selected mash of pop cultrature. Here are some extracts, with her commentary

November 2015

  • Chibundu Onuzo

    Children's books
    Chibundu Onuzo: what I read growing up in Lagos

    The author of The Spider King’s Daughter tells us how she grew up reading European classics in Nigeria, consuming her African literature orally until discovering Chinua Achebe when she was 14 years old

September 2015

  • Readers' alternative list of the 100 best novels written in English

    The 100 best novels
    The best novels in English: readers' alternative list

    After Robert McCrum finished his two-year-long project compiling the best novels written in English, you had a lot to add. Here are the 15 books that received most votes to join the list

July 2015

  • 2015 Caine prize

    Guardian Africa network
    Sci-fi, creative writing and wizards – Africa's best authors discuss modern literature

    What is ‘African literature’? How easy is it to become an author on the continent? What we learned from this year’s Caine prize shortlist

October 2014

  • Waterstones bookshop

    Books blog
    Night at the bookshop: Waterstones stages a sleepover after a tourist got trapped in the store

    After an American tourist got locked in to one of their bookshops, Waterstones are inviting volunteers for a sleepover. Here are ten short books you could read in an evening – but what would you do if you could spend the night in a bookshop? Let us know in the comments below

September 2014

  • Bridge in Lagos Nigeria

    Top 10s
    The top 10 books about Nigeria

    Author Barnaby Phillips chooses fiction and non-fiction that shows an often caricatured nation in all its rich variety

July 2014

  • Globe

    Fifty greatest modern love poems list embraces 30 different countries

    Global reach of experts' new selection ranges over last 50 years, from Scotland to Saudi Arabia, Korea to Kurdistan

May 2014

  • Trigger warnings literature books

    US students request 'trigger warnings' on literature

    Books containing scenes with potential to cause distress said to include Things Fall Apart, The Great Gatsby and Mrs Dalloway, writes Alison Flood

March 2014

  • Jill Filipovic

    On gender and other agendas
    We've gone too far with 'trigger warnings'

    Jill Filipovic

    Jill Filipovic: Universities and blogs do students no favors by pretending that every piece of offensive content comes with a warning sign

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