Chinua Achebe: References & Edit History
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Ezenwa-Ohaeto, Chinua Achebe (1997); and Tijan M. Sallah and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Chinua Achebe, Teacher of Light (2003), are biographies. C.L. Innes, Chinua Achebe (1990), is a comprehensive critical study of Achebeās works through Hopes and Impediments. Useful reference works include M. Keith Booker (ed.), The Chinua Achebe Encyclopedia (2003); and Jago Morrison, The Fiction of Chinua Achebe (2007).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: BBC - 1990 : Chinua Achebe on Nigerian culture. | Aug 24, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fresh Air Archive - Chinua Achebe. | Mar 21, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Mar 17, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Al Jazeera - Chinua Achebe: Why Google honours him today. | Feb 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Booker Prizes - Chinua Achebe. | Dec 29, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 12, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Radio National - The Legacy of Nigerian Author Chinua Achebe. | Sep 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - 1990 : Chinua Achebe on Nigerian culture. | Jul 31, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - Chinua Achebe?s Encounters With Many Hearts of Darkness. | Sep 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Oxford - Great Writers Inspire - Chinua Achebe. | Jul 31, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Guardian - Chinua Achebe: A life in writing. | Jun 18, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 07, 2024 | ||
| Media added. | Feb 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of Congress - An Evening with Chinua Achebe. | Feb 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Chinua Achebe. | Jul 25, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Poetry Foundation - Chinua Achebe. | Jul 25, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Council - Literature - Chinua Achebe. | Jul 16, 2021 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Dec 10, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Biography of Chinua Achebe. | Feb 24, 2020 | ||
| Add new Web site: Literary Destinations - Biography of Vikram Seth. | May 16, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Literary Destinations - Biography of Chinua Achebe. | May 16, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New Yorker - After the Empire - Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel. | Nov 16, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New Yorker - After the Empire - Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel. | Nov 16, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Blackpast - Biography of Chinua Achebe. | Oct 04, 2017 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Jul 18, 2017 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Feb 05, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: African American Registry - Biography of Chinua Achebe. | Oct 03, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: South African History Online - Biography of Chinua Achebe. | Oct 03, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Man Booker Prizes - Biography of Chinua Achebe. | Aug 30, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Brown University - Department of Africana Studies - Biography of Chinua Achebe. | Aug 30, 2013 | ||
| In the birth information, changed "March" to "March 21." | Mar 22, 2013 | ||
| Added his death date. |
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Mar 22, 2013 | |
| Added mention of There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra. | Oct 23, 2012 | ||
| Added mention of 2009 book The Education of a British-Protected Child and of Achebe's move from Bard to Brown University. | Dec 11, 2009 | ||
| Bibliography revised and updated. | Oct 07, 2008 | ||
| Media added. | May 20, 2008 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 13, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Jan 25, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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