Chinua Achebe (Record no. 394)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780852555453 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823OBA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Obaeto, Enzenwa. |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Chinua Achebe |
| Remainder of title | a biography |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Bloomington |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Indiana University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1997 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | xii, 326 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Includes bibliographical references( p. 287-312 ) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Achebe is the man who invented African literature because he was able to show, in the structure and language of Things Fall Apart, that the future of African writing did not lie in simple imitation of European forms but in the fusion of such forms with oral traditions', says Professor Simon Gikandi of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This biography of Chinua Achebe captures how his personal characteristics have combined with historical events to produce the man who cleared the frontiers of literature for Africa North America: Indiana U Press; Nigeria: HEBN |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Achebe, Chinua. Authors, Nigerian-20th century -Biography. Nigeria-Intellectual life. |
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| UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam | UONGOZI Institute Resources Centre - Dar es Salaam | 01/17/2025 | 823OBA | 000391 | 01/31/2025 | 01/17/2025 | Book |