# Chinua Achebe bibliography

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) wrote African stories from an African perspective, and his debut novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), has been used in the school curricula; It sold more than twelve million copies and has been translated into more than sixty languages. Achebe was first regarded as the "father of modern African literature" by Nadine Gordimer, although he rejected the title throughout his career.
Achebe published five novels: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, and Anthills of the Savannah, and four children's books: Chike and the River, How the Leopard Got His Claws, The Flute, and The Drum; and two short story collections: The Sacrificial Egg and Girls at War. He published two volumes of poetry: Beware, Soul Brother and Collected Poems; four essay collections: Morning Yet on Creation Day, Hopes and Impediments, Home and Exile, and The Education of a British-Protected Child; a political criticism, The Trouble with Nigeria, and a memoir, There Was a Country. Achebe's Another Africa contains his essays and poems, and also photographs by Robert Lyons.
American literary critic Elaine Showalter considers Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah as Achebe's best books. Nevertheless, his works has been extensively studied by academic and scholars, and won him several awards including the Man Booker International Prize. South African politician Nelson Mandela described Achebe as "the writer in whose company the prison walls came down".

## Literature
### Novels

Source:
* Things Fall Apart (1958). Heinemann: African writers series: London. OCLC 10730671
* No Longer at Ease (1960). African writers series: Heinemann, London. OCLC 15593827
* Arrow of God (1964). African writers series: Heinemann, London. OCLC 13904845
* A Man of the People (1966). African writers series: Heinemann, London. OCLC 367876
* Anthills of the Savannah (1987). African writers series: Heinemann, London. OCLC 16225418

### Children's book

Source:
* Chike and the River (1966). African writers series: Cambridge University Press, London. OCLC 728183723
* How the Leopard Got His Claws (1972). OCLC 2304372
* The Drum (1977). Heinemann: London. ISBN 978-0434006045
* The Flute (1977). Fourth Dimension Publishers: Enugu, Nigeria. OCLC 8796371

### Articles

Source:
* "Are We Men of Two Worlds?" (1963). Spear.
* "The Role of the Writer in a New Nation" (1964). Nigerian Libraries: Pages 113–119.
* "Philosophy" (21 February 1951). The Bug.
* "An Argument Against the Existence of Faculties" (1951). University Herald.
* "Mr. Okafor Versus Arts Students" (29 November 1952). The Bug.
* "Hiawatha" (29 November 1952). The Bug.
* "Eminent Nigerians of the 19th Century" (1958). Radio Times.
* "Listening in the East" (1959). Radio Times.
* "Two West African Library Journal" (6 May 1961). The Service.
* "Amos Tutuola" (29 July 1961). Radio Times.
* "Writers' Conference: A Milestone in Africa's Profress" (7 July 1962). Daily Times.
* "Conference of African Writers" (15 July 1962). Radio Times.

### Essays

Source:
* "A Look at West African Writing" (1963). Spear
* "How it Began" (1963). Voice of Nigeria.
* "On Janheinz Jahn and Ezekiel Mphahlele" (1963). Transition Magazine. doi:10.2307/2934524 JSTOR 2934524.
* "English and the African Writer" (1965). Transition Magazine.
* "The Black Writer's Burden" (1966). Présence Africaine.
* "Editorial" (1971). Nsukkascope: pages 1–4.
* "Editorial" (1971). Nsukkascope: pages 1–5.
* "Editorial" (1971). Nsukkascope: pages 4–5

### Books and book reviews

Source:
* This Earth, My Brother.... Couthored with Kofi Awoonor.Doubleday. Achebe wrote pages vii–xii
* Places and Bloodstains (1975) (Coauthored by Keorapetse Kgositsile): Achebe Publications.
* "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" (1975). "The Chancellor's Lecture Series": University of Massachusetts Amherst; pages 31–43
* Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975). Heinemann.
* The Trouble With Nigeria (1983). Fourth Dimension Publishers: Enugu; 1984: Heinemann: London.
* Hopes and Impediments (1988). Heinemann: London.
* Home and Exile (2000). Oxford University Press: London.
* The Education of a British-Protected Child (2009). Penguin Classics: London.
* There Was A Country (2012). Penguin Classics: London.
* Africa's Tarnished Name (2018). Penguin Classics (published posthumously).
* Dreams of Twilight: A Book of Poems (1962). Nigerian National Press: Apapa.
* "Review of Christopher Okigbo's Heavensgate" (1962). Spear.
* Review of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo's Twenty-Four Poems (1963). Spear.

### Poems and poetry collections

Source:
* "There was a Young Man in Our Hall" (1951-52). University Herald.
* "Flying" (1973). Okike.
* "The Old Man and the Census" (1974). Okike.
* Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems (1971). Nwankwo-Ifejika: Enugu, Nigeria; 1972: Heinemann: London.
* Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems (1973). Doubleday.
* Don't Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial Poems for Christopher Okigbo (1978). Fourth Dimension Publishers: Enugu, Nigeria.
* Another Africa (1998). Anchor Books.
* Collected Poems (2004). Penguin Books.

### Short stories

Source:
* "In a Village Church" (1951)
* "The Old Order in Conflict with the New" (1952). University Herald.
* "Dead Men's Path" (1953)
* "Chike's School Days" (1969). Rotarian.
* "The Voter" (1965)
* "Civil Peace" (1971). Okike.
* "Sugar Baby" (1972). Okike.
* "Marriage Is a Private Affair" (1972). Published in Girls at War and Other Stories.
* "Vengeful Creditor" (1972). Published in Girls at War and Other Stories.

### Short story collection

* The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (1962). Etudo Ltd: Onitsha, Nigeria.
* Girls at War and Other Stories (1972). Heinemann: London; 1973: Doubleday.
* African Short Stories: Twenty Stories from Across the Continent (1985). Heinemann: London.
* The Heineman Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (1992). Heinemann: London.