Achebe, Chinua (SwissEduc Team- The English Page, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland ) Hans G. Fischer, July 2004; updated 2005.
Africa and Africans in Conrad's Heart of Darkness
(Candice Bradley, Associate
Professor of Anthropology, originally a Lawrence Univ. Freshman Studies
Lecture, 24 Jan. 1996; now available from Department of English at the
University of Berne, Switzerland, July 2004):
NEW URL:
http://www.cx.unibe.ch/ens/cg/africanfiction/conrad/bradley/bradley.html
Explores Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness from an anthropological
perspective and includes the section "Achebe's Critique and Images of
Illness in Africa."
Africana.com Web Site (Microsoft Encarta Africana,
Microsoft Corp., 1999-2000). - Search keyword: Achebe
http://www.africana.com/ (accessed
July 2001)
Bacon, Katie. "An African Voice" [Interview with Chinua Achebe.] Interviews: Atlantic Unbound 2 Aug. 2000. The Atlantic Online, 2000. http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba2000-08-02.htm (accessed 8 Mar 2001).
Chinua Achebe (Jennifer Engels, Alysia Hamilton,
Michelle Hoge, Matt Miller; students of LIG 202-01: Masterpieces
of European Literature II, Prof. Kirk Lockwood, Illinois Valley Community
College, 1998 Spring 1998): Introduction, Works, Timeline, Bibliography, Links
http://www.ivcc.edu/lockwood/Lig_201/Achebe/index.html
(accessed July 2001)
Chinua Achebe (Kuusankoski
Public Library, Finland):
biography, bibliography
http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/achebe.htm
(last accessed August 2004)
Chinua Achebe (New York State Writers
Institute, State Univ. of New York): Biography, photo, works:
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/achebe.html
Chinua Achebe: Overview (George
Landow, Post Imperial and Post Colonial Literature in English,
Brown Univ.)
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/achebeov.html
[last rev. 6 February 2002]
Old URL: http://landow.stg.brown.edu/post/achebe/achebeov.html (accessed July 2001)
...including links to Chinua Achebe's Biography and Style:
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/achebebio.html
Chinua Achebe and
Things
Fall Apart,
and
Achebe's Use of Language (all by Melissa Culross, based upon Contemporary
Authors); a list of
Achebe's Works;
Nigeria Overview,
"The Role of Women in Things Fall
Apart" (by
June Chun);
"Women
in Achebe's World" (by
Rose Ure Mezu); and more.
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart -
bio-bibliographical-literary commentary by Dr. Joseph L. Mbele, (of Tanzania;
& now in English Dept., St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN)
http://www.sdsmt.edu/courses/is/hum375/achebe.html
- Mbele, Joseph L.
- Dr. Mbele, from Tanzania, teaches folklore and literature in the English Department, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota. Site includes a critique of Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart", an article on doing fieldwork in Tanzanian folklore plus ethical issues, study abroad programs in Tanzania and Zimbabwe, and a commentary on the current politics of Rwanda; Mbele taught at the University of Burundi. [KF] http://www.stolaf.edu/people/mbele/
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (created
by English students, Univ. of St. Francis, Jolliet, IL):
http://www.stfrancis.edu/en/student/achebe/main.htm
(accessed July 2001)
Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart (Reader's Corner, Addison Public Library, Illinois): http://www.addison.lib.il.us/6achebe.asp (accessed July 2001)
Chinua Achebe:
Things Fall Apart Study Guide
(Paul Brians, Dept. of English, Washington State Univ.):
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html
(accessed July 2001)
Chinua Achebe and the Language of the Colonizer
(Katharine Slattery, completed for the MA degree in Modern Literary Studies,
dir. Dr. Leon Litvack, School of English, Queen's Univ. of
Belfast):
http://www.qub.ac.uk/en/imperial/nigeria/language.htm
(accessed July 2001)
[Chinua Achebe's] The African Trilogy: 'Writing Back' to Mister
Johnson:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/nigeria/writback.htm
From The Imperial Archive, "A site dedicated to the study of
Literature, Imperialism, and Postcolonialism": "This
site provides information for all those interested in the influence of the
British imperial process on literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. Using
colonial discourse and post-colonial theory as a point of departure, some pages
examine the British idea of 'Empire' and the colonial enterprise in a selected
range of 19th-century authors and their work; others consider 20th-century
texts, in an attempt to understand how imperialism affected literary texts
produced in Britain's former colonies. The pages are authored by students
working on the MA degree in Modern Literary Studies in the School of English at
the Queen's University in Belfast": http://www.qub.ac.uk/english/imperial/imperial.htm
(accessed July 2001)
Chinua Achebe on the Role
of the African Writer (Lit 165/168: Things Fall
Apart):
http://courses.wcupa.edu/fletcher/afrwritr.htm
(accessed July 2001)
Creative Quotations from .
. .Chinua Achebe (Franklin C. Baer, Baertracks),
with search functions:
http://www.bemorecreative.com/one/890.htm
(accessed July 2001)
Encarta Online Encyclopedia - Search
for free. Keyword: Achebe, Chinua
http://encarta.msn.com/reference/
(accessed July 2001)
Hum 211 
African
Storytelling: Oral Traditions (Cora Agatucci,
Culture & Literature of Africa, Central Oregon CC)
includes analysis of Achebe examples.
Hum 211 Student Writing (Cora Agatucci, Culture & Literature of
Africa, Central Oregon CC) includes some student essays
on Things Fall Apart.
Internet Public Library: IPL Online Literary Criticism
Collection: Chinua Achebe (1930 - ) abstracts & links to criticism,
biographical web sites, as well as individual works by Achebe:
http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?au=ach-255
...Anthills of the Savannah: http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?ti=ant-387
...Arrow of God: http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?ti=arr-385
...A Man of the People: http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?ti=man-386
...No Longer at Ease: http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?ti=no+-384
...Things Fall Apart: http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/ref/litcrit/litcrit.out.pl?ti=thi-383
Internet Resources: Chinua Achebe & Things Fall Apart (Bill Barrett, Webster Univ.): links, map: http://www.websteruniv.edu/~barrettb/achebe.htm (accessed July 2001)
North, James. "African Heart, No Darkness." Rev. of Home
and Exile, by Chinua Achebe. Nation [271.2] 10 July 2000:
36(3pp). EBSCOHost Academic Search Elite: Article
No. 3331968.
Also available online:
http://past.thenation.com/issue/000710/0710north.shtml
(accessed July 2001).
Photo of Chinua Achebe:
http://www.digidot.com/sal9697/Chinua_Achebe_photo.html
(accessed July 2001)
Things Fall Apart: Exploration of African Tribes (Sharon
Jenkins and Jennifer Slinger, Stephen Watts Kearny Senior High, San Diego, CA):
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/kearny/tribal/
(accessed July 2001)
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe (Sharon
Hendriksen, Kingwood College Library, Kingwood, TX, 2001): Biography,
characters, plot, themes, criticism, links, journal articles, history:
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/achebe.htm
(accessed July 2001)
"Translating Cultures? Towards a Rhetoric of Cross-Cultural Communication" by Tobias Döring (Freie Universität Berlin)- in English: http://www.ph-erfurt.de/~neumann/eese/articles/doering/1_95.html (accessed July 2001)
"Writer Wants World to Hear Africa's Stories from Africans,"
by Jerry Large (Lifestyles, Seattletimes.com, 14 May 1998): Achebe collaborates
with Seattle photographer Robert Lyons on Another Africa:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/lifestyles/html98/altjdl_051498.html
(accessed July 2001).
