Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (jina la kuzaliwa: Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 Novemba 1930 - 21 Machi 2013) alikuwa mwandishi kutoka nchi ya Nigeria. 

Ameandika vitabu vingi vyenye riwaya, mashairi na insha. Hadithi zake zinatumia mitindo ya fasihi simulizi ya lugha yake ya asili, Kiigbo. Hata hivyo ameandika hasa kwa Kiingereza. Baadhi ya maandiko yake ni:
 Mambo Huangamia (1958, kwa Kiingereza "Things Fall Apart")
 Hakuna Starehe Tena (1960, kwa Kiingereza "No Longer At Ease")
 Mshale wa Mungu (1964, kwa Kiingereza "Arrow of God")
 Wasichana Vitani (1973, kwa Kiingereza "Girls at War")
 Shida na Nigeria (1984, kwa Kiingereza "The Trouble with Nigeria")
 (1987, kwa Kiingereza "Anthills of the Savannah")
 Picha ya Afrika (2000, kwa Kijerumani "Ein Bild von Afrika")

Kitabu chake cha Things Fall Apart, ambacho kinaaminika ndicho kitabu chake bora zaidi, ni kitabu kilichosomwa kwa wingi zaidi katika vitabu vya tamthiliya ya Kiafrika.

Maisha
Alilelewa na wazazi wake wa kabila la Waigbo katika mji wa Ogidi, jimbo la Anambra, kusini mashariki mwa Nigeria. 

Achebe alikuwa mwanafunzi mahiri ambapo alipata tuzo ya kujifunza udaktari lakini akabadili mawazo na kujifunza fasihi ya Kiingereza kwenye chuo kikuu cha University College of Ibadan (sasa University of Ibadan). 

Alipenda kujifunza masuala ya dini mbalimbali duniani na utamaduni wa Kiafrika. Baadaye akaanza kuandika hadithi akiwa bado mwanafunzi wa chuo kikuu. 

Baada ya kuhitimu masomo yake alifanya kazi Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) na baadaye akahamia Lagos. 

Kitabu cha Things Fall Apart alichokiandika mwishoni mwa miaka ya 1950 kilimpatia jina kubwa duniani. Baadaye aliandika No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), na Anthills of the Savannah (1987). 

Achebe aliandika vitabu vyake kwa Kiingereza na alitetea matumizi ya Kiingereza, "lugha ya wakoloni" kwenye tamthiliya ya Kiafrika. Mwaka 1975, hotuba yake An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" ilimkosoa mwandishi Joseph Conrad kama mbaguzi wa rangi. Pamoja na kuzua utata, ilichapishwa kwenye jarida la The Massachusetts Review

Orodha ya kazi

Riwaya
 Things Fall Apart (1958). E.g. New York: Anchor Books, 1994. 
 No Longer at Ease (1960). E.g. Penguin Books, 1994. 
 Arrow of God (1964). E.g. Penguin Books, 2016. 
 A Man of the People (1966). E.g. Penguin Books, 1989. 
 Anthills of the Savannah (1987). New York: Anchor Books, 1998. 

Hadithi fupi
 Marriage Is a Private Affair (1952)
 Dead Men's Path (1953)
 The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (1953)
 Civil Peace (1971)
 Girls at War and Other Stories (including "Vengeful Creditor") (1973) 
 African Short Stories (editor, with C. L. Innes) (1985) 
 The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (editor, with C. L. Innes) (1992) 
 The Voter 

Ushairi
 Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems (1971) (published in the US as Christmas in Biafra, and Other Poems, 1973) 
 Don't Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial Poems for Christopher Okigbo (editor, with Dubem Okafor) (1978) 
 Another Africa (with Robert Lyons) (1998) 
 Collected Poems – Penguin Books, 2004. 
 Refugee Mother and Child
 Vultures

Insha,maoni ya kisiasa
 The Novelist as Teacher (1965) – also in Hopes and Impediments
 An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" (1975) – also in Hopes and Impediments 
 Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975) 
 The Trouble With Nigeria (1984). Reissued by Fourth Dimension Publishing Co., 2000 
 Hopes and Impediments (1988) 
 Home and Exile (2000). Penguine Books (reprint) 2001,  
 The Education of a British-Protected Child (6 October 2009). Anchor Canada 2010 
 There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra (11 October 2012) 
  Africa's Tarnished Name (22 February 2018) 
Vitabu vya watoto
 Chike and the River (1966) 
 How the Leopard Got His Claws (with John Iroaganachi) (1972) 
 The Flute (1975) 
 The Drum (1978)

Tanbihi

Viungo vya nje

 Chinua Achebe reads the first two chapters of Things Fall Apart at PEN American Center Event: Faith & Reason: Writers Speak, 2006
 "A Tribute to Chinua Achebe" from PEN American Center, 2008
 "Chinua Achebe: The Spirit Lives". Tribute to Chinua Achebe by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Leeds African Studies Bulletin 75 (Winter 2013/14), pp. 51–53.
 "A long way from home". Interview in The Guardian, 10 July 2007
 "Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction No. 139". Interview by Jerome Brooks in The Paris Review, 1994
 Guide to Chinua Achebe papers at Houghton Library, Harvard University
 FBI file on Chinua Achebe at the Internet Archive

Waliozaliwa 1930
Waliofariki 2013
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