Portrait of the Author as a Historian: Chinua Achebe
The son of a country whose history had been written by outsiders, Chinua Achebe recognised the need for African literature with a Nigerian voice.
When University College, Ibadan opened its doors for the new academic year in the autumn of 1951, Nigeria was in the grip of political ferment. Since its earliest days as a British colony, it had been governed through a clumsy and unpopular system of indirect rule. Now, in the aftermath of the Second World War, its people were agitating for greater self-government.
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