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Africa's Tarnished Name (Mini Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
2.50 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Mini Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature.
Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe
22.99 AUD
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
Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons Ser.
Looking back at his own life and education, this book by the giant of African literature is a deeply personal and essential key for unlocking all of Achebe's literature and politics
No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe
19.99 AUD
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
There Was a Country A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
39.99 AUD
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
There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
22.99 AUD
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
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive, famous throughout West Africa. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. With his world thrown radically off-balance he can only hu ...Show more
Things Fall Apart (Modern Classics) by Chinua Achebe
22.99 AUD
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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