noon Achebe And Friends At Umuahia - The Making Of A Literary Elite Paperback


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Book Description Maps the literary awakening of the young intellectuals who became known as Nigeria"s "first-generation" of postcolonial writers: Chinua Achebe, Elechi Amadi, Chike Momah, Christopher Okigbo, Chukwuemeka Ike, Gabriel Okara, Ken Saro-Wiwa and I.C. Aniebo. The author provides fresh perspectives on Postcolonial and World literary processes, colonial education in British Africa, literary representations of colonialism and Chinua Achebe"s seminal position in African literature. She demonstra
Grade New
Language English
Publication Date 20 Apr 2018
Author 1 Terri Ochiagha
Editorial Review Ochiagha"s book on the school and its prodigies is well researched and engagingly readable. She displays the precision of an archaeologist, the pedantic nature of a historian, the intuition of an anthropologist and the vivid, engaged imagination of a literary critic in her writing. The dedication she shows, in building up the lives of these iconic writers from various sources, including their school assignments, is extremely impressive...Ochiagha has done literary history a great servi
ISBN-13 9781847011961
Number of Pages 216
Publisher James Currey

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