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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780241338834
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Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141191560
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Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2010
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Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his authority increasingly under threat - from his rivals in the tribe, from those in the white government and even from his own family. Yet he still feels he must be untouchable - surely he is an arrow in the bow of his God
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141023380
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Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2006
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Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141186887
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Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2001
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Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. 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.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141186894
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Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2001
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As Minister for Culture, the Honourable M A Nanga is 'a man of the people', as cynical as he is charming, and a roguish opportunist. This work deals with modern African history.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141192581
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Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2010
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Asserts the author's belief in Joseph Conrad as a 'bloody racist' and his conviction that Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness" only serves to perpetuate damaging stereotypes of black people. This title includes "The Trouble with Nigeria", the author's searing outpouring of his frustrations with his country.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780385260459
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Publication Date: Feb 1997
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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Using the conflict between the city and tribal villages, the ravages of the great African drought, and Third World politics as a compelling backdrop, Achebe weaves a potent drama of modern Africa.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141186900
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Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2001
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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.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141191553
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Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 28th January 2010
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Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl, he sinks further into emotional and financial turmoil.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9781841593272
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Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2010
Publisher: Everyman
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Includes "Things Fall Apart", "No Longer at Ease", and "Arrow of God". In "Things Fall Apart" the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, 'strong man' and tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo society under the impact of Christianity and colonialism.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780141043616
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Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 27th January 2011
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Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both the author's happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and also the harsher truths of colonial rule.
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By: Chinua Achebe
ISBN: 9780241959206
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Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and vivid first-hand observation, this title is a work of wisdom and compassion from one of the great voices of our age.
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