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127154
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Chinua Achebe and his work represent the restoration of the African as the central focus of deliberation and agency. The importance of that cannot be over-emphasized for a continent and its peoples who were conquered and occupied most devastatingly by Europeans. Achebe has accomplished that task by: (1) ensuring that there is no universal loss of memory of the historic realities of African sovereignty and independence before conquest nor of the regenerative seeds of African freedom that survived the occupation and (2) by countering the conquest literature of the aftermath.
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127489
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2013.
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There has been a reluctance or indifference to a systematic study and documentation of the Igbo Genocide in Nigeria. In the main, the reason has been due to official and non-official attempts to subvert a focus on an event in which more than one million Igbo were slaughtered through a process that was fomented, orchestrated, executed, and supervised by the Nigerian state.
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127143
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2013.
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A properly contextualized historiography in Chinua Achebe's personal history of Biafra is necessary for shaping his discourse on Biafra clearly for a better understanding. British colonial intervention was a crass endeavor that repositioned clearly distinct peoples inhabiting the parts of the Niger basin that became Nigeria in an unhealthy social, economic and political arrangement that enabled the series of unfortunate events that included the pogroms of the Igbo and, of course, the genocidal Biafra war.
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147818
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The late Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was a key figure in the rise and persistence of anti-colonial ideology in Africa. Yet in his final work, Achebe made a clear statement about the positive legacies of colonialism, praising the British project of state formation and nation building in the lower Niger basin. A careful study of his writings and comments from 1958 until his death in 2013 shows that Achebe was never the simple anti-colonial figure that most assumed, and that his seeming reversal could be read as the culmination of a lifetime's meditation on African history and politics. Achebe's final views have significant paradigmatic implications for the knowledge relevant to national identity formation and state building in Africa today.
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127152
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2013.
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Chinua Achebe is one of the greatest realist writers in world literature in perhaps the last one and half centuries. But the Achebe that appears in There Was a Country is to me entirely a new one. The challenge is how to characterize this other Achebe that is standing beside the old, urbane and subtle writer in this new book.
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ID:
127500
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2013.
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A tribute or eulogy by one writer to another is always an invitation to the audience or readers to sit back and share in some of their moments or encounters, as the case may be. Chinua Achebe's transition in March 2013 triggered one such response from Ng?g? wa Thiong'o.
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127493
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2013.
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Biafra and the tragedy it represents for humankind is compounded by the official code of silence that Nigeria's military decreed in the 1970s to ensure that the Biafra-Nigeria war is not taught in schools in Nigeria. Scholars and intellectuals are obligated to subvert that code of silence in order to educate humanity on the tragedy and the atrocities that led to it. Chinua Achebe's There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra (Penguin, 2012) and his transition March 21 2013 provided one such opportunity for scholars and concerned intellectuals alike.
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127145
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2013.
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Here is an intellectually dense reading of Chinua Achebe's personal history of Biafra, which deconstructs and illuminates the book. Deconstructive components expose elements of Achebe's narrative that fly beyond the intellectual grasp of his hasty castigators, many of whom vented without having read the book. In the related vein, the illuminative components expose the obligation and burden that Achebe discharged in the book as a Biafran. It is therefore a book whose narrative retraces the responsibility of Achebe's faith vis-à-vis a historical challenge, which he fulfilled with determination by writing it.
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127499
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2013.
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Even at a perfunctory level, a comparative look at the conflicts that took place in the US between the Union and the Confederacy and the one between Nigeria and the Republic of Biafra in 1966-1970 reveals enough to corroborate Chinua Achebe's bold charge made in his last book, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, that the Igbo have been wrongly persecuted in Nigeria. Confirmatory pointers to hatred and resentment of the Igbo can still be gleaned long after the Biafra War. So are those that indicate continuing marginalization of and refusal to reintegrate the Igbo, and the areas that made up the Republic of Biafra.
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