Research Catalog

Title

Achebe, Chinua 1930 - 2013: clippings.

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Details

Additional Authors

New York Public Library. Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Description

1 folder.

Summary

Clipping and miscellaneous material about Chinua Achebe's book, journal and a documented interview with Walusako Mwalilino. Clippings also contains brochure to celebrate Chinua Achebe's 70th Birthday, articles of the great Nigerian novelist on literature, politics and fanaticism. Studied at the Government College in Umuahia; BA degree from University College of Ibadan (now University of Ibadan), worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation, ultimately acting as director of the radio program Voice of Nigeria in Lagos; 1957 attended the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) staff school in London; after the Nigerian civil war (1967-1970) taught literature at the University of Nigeria at Nsukka; in the 1970s taught at several American universities; in 2008 served as Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College, New York; awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his contribution to world literature (2007); died 21 March 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Subjects

• Achebe, Chinua 1930-2013
• Black author
• Bard College > New York times
• Western influences
• Publishers
• Biography
• Clippings
• Novelists > Poets > College teachers
• University College of Ibadan

Genre/Form

Clippings.

Note

• Compiled by: Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Part 3 collected from 1989-

Call Number

Sc VF: Part 3

Title

Achebe, Chinua 1930 - 2013: clippings.

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

New York Public Library. Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Research Call Number

Sc VF: Part 3