4There Was a Country: A Memoir There Was A Country is Chinua Achebe’s personal account of his life in Nigeria during the country’s Civil War, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970.

A stupendous life companion by the way ... “For us, the loss of Chinua Achebe is, above all else, intensely personal. We have lost a brother, a colleague, a trailblazer and a doughty fighter.” ...

When, in 1958, the London publishers William Heinemann received a manuscript of Chinua ... how life had been organized in my part of the world in 1890, Achebe’s novels became strangely personal.

JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in ... “There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra.” An ethnic Igbo, Achebe was born Nov. 16, 1930, in Ogidi ...

Renowned author Chinua Achebe's latest work ... vivid flashes of the writer's life at war: the personal.

people in Nigeria by British colonial administrators and follows the life of Okonkwo, an Igbo leader and wrestling champion. Here’s what you need to know about Chinua Achebe’s debut novel.

The life and ideas of the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, in his own words, and in the words of those who knew, loved and were inspired by him. Show more The life and ideas of the Nigerian novelist ...

The Achebe Colloquium on Africa, the legacy project established by the famed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, brings together an international cast of leading and emerging scholars, high-level ...