Books By Chinua Achebe
List of 5 best books written by Chinua Achebe. Check out the booklist.
1. Things Fall Apart
Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. 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 hurtle towards tragedy.
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2. The African Trilogy
Chinua Achebe is considered the father of African literature in English, the writer who ‘opened the magic casements of African fiction’ for an international readership. Following the 50th anniversary of the publication of his ground-breaking Things Fall Apart, Everyman republish Achebe’s first and most famous novel alongside No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God, under the collective title The African Trilogy.
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3. Arrow Of God
Arrow Of God (Penguin Modern Classics) is a famous post-colonial novel which beautifully depicts the struggle between the traditional values and customs of the local people against the changes that the British desired to bring in colonial countries. It was published by Penguin UK in 2010 and is available in paperback.
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4. No Longer at Ease
Showing a man lost in cultural limbo, and a Nigeria entering a new age of disillusionment, No Longer at Ease concludes Achebe’s remarkable trilogy charting three generations of an African community under the impact of colonialism, the first two volumes of which are Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God.
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5. Anthills of the Savannah
Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are simply trying to live and love – and remain friends. But in a world where each day brings a new betrayal, hope is hard to cling on to.
