Word: chinua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ARROW OF GOD by Chinua Achebe. 287 pages. John...
...Chinua Achebe, Nigeria's leading writer, continues his heroic efforts to impose a pattern of fiction on his native land, to give his people a chronicle of their own past against which the new values of the emergent nation may be measured. In A Man of the People (TIME, Aug. 19, 1966), Novelist Achebe showed that life in the capital of his country did not always represent an advance on tribal society. In Arrow of God, he demonstrates the confusing effects of white man's law and religion on the jungle villages...
...PEOPLE, by Chinua Achebe. Nigeria has produced a fine wit capable of taking the blundering chaos of a yet uncreated nation and making it the topical stage for a heartbreaking comedy...
...than the tsetse fly. Whatever it is in the African climate or mentality or its shaky institutions that makes so many governments so susceptible to disintegration may never be very clearly understood. Perhaps there are some clues to be found in a novel source-a novel, that is, by Chinua Achebe...
...American Negro writer has approached the comic posture that Chinua Achebe has achieved toward his own people. His book is worth a ton of documentary journalism. Indeed, he has shown that a mind that observes clearly but feels deeply enough to afford laughter may be more wise than all the politicians and journalists...