TY  - BOOK
AU  - Obaeto, Enzenwa.
TI  - Chinua Achebe: a biography
SN  - 9780852555453
U1  - 823OBA 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana University Press
KW  - Achebe, Chinua. Authors, Nigerian-20th century -Biography. Nigeria-Intellectual life
N1  - Includes bibliographical references( p. 287-312 )
N2  - 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
ER  -