Examples of using Achebe in English and their translations into German
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March 21**Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer b.
If you want to see it well,you must not stay still in one place” Chinua Achebe.
It is just as hard to imagine a Chinua Achebe or Kwame Nkrumah today.
I must confess that I am in awe of Nigerian writers,like the great Chinua Achebe.
You mentioned Chinua Achebe and I read the essay on Joseph Conrad.
One of them tries to sell us books andoffers us“Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe.
What the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe calls"a balance of stories.
My humanity is not to be debated, nor is it to be used simply to illustrate European problems.¹-Chinua Achebe.
Last year the great Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe died at the age of 83.
But because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye I went through a mental shift in my perception of literature.
His work, not only as a great writer but, in my view, as one of Africa's great sons, as a Nigerian, as an Igbo,all of these identities make up the full picture of who Achebe is to Africans of my generation.
Achebe just wanted to underscore the fact that the view of Africans, at least their representation in this novella,“Heart of Darkness” reduced the Africans as mere objects against the backdrop of the deterioration“of one petty European mind” as he put it.
Past Presence is a tribute to the literaryworks of young Nigerian writers like Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka, who stand out for their clarity and dignity.
Chinua Achebe'a vast literary work is a magnificent fresco, not only of the African world where the writer comes from, but also of the contemporary reality in general and of its radical and upsetting transformations, of which Nigeria,portrayed by Achebe, becomes a symbolic landscape of great significance.
Nigeria's best-known writers are Wole Soyinka, the first African Nobel Laureate in Literature,and Chinua Achebe, best known for the novel,"Things Fall Apart" and his controversial critique of Joseph Conrad.
In his novels- among which it is worth toremember the powerful trilogy"Things Fall Apart"- Achebe represents the clash between the African tribal civilization and the European one, which has come to bring together modernity and destruction.
I do not know if we are going so far away from art, but one always works with a historical understanding that part of the hype of Africa todayis also an attempt to smooth over some of these histories that Achebe touched upon in his review and critique of Joseph Conrad's“Heart of Darkness.”.
He was also among theNigerians who, like his fellow painter Uche Okeke, the writer Chinua Achebe and the Nobel Prize Winner Wole Soynika, thought intensively and successfully at the start of the 60s about new, up-to-date and thus genuine Nigerian aesthetics in image and word.
Other highlights will tie into the sub-Saharan Africa theme, including Spanish-language literature in Africa andthe new translation of"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe- the"father" of the modern African novel. We will explore conditions for publishers in the region, as well as German-Namibian relations.
Using the Internet, Befeqadu personified those eternal words of the grandfather of African literature,Chinua Achebe:“an artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.”.
Finally, many African novels reflect both the positive and negative aspects of the continent's Christianisation. Examples are Things Fall Apart(1959)by the Nigerian Chinua Achebe(1930-2013) and The Poor Christ of Bomba(Le pauvre Christ de Bomba, 1967) by the Cameroonian novelist Mongo Beti Alexandre Biyidi-Awala, 1932-2001.