Luandino Vieira

Sami Tchak

Niyi Osundare

Mbulelo Mzamane

Conceição Lima

Boaventura Cardoso

Landeg White

Mbulelo Mzamane

José Luís Pires Laranjeira

Luís Kandjimbo

Chelva Kanaganayakam

Fernanda Gil Costa

Don Burness

Stewart Brown

Emmanuel Babalola

Sunday Adetunji Bamisile

Paul Angoli

Nwando Achebe

João Ferreira Duarte

Niyi Osundare

WRITERS IN DIALOGUE (alphabetical order)

PANEL SPEAKERS (alphabetical order)

KEY PARTICIPANTS

 

Chinua Achebe

    Chinua Achebe born November 16, 1930 and educated at Government College in Umuahia and at the University College of Ibadan, Nigeria. After the Biafran war he was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka – he is now its Emeritus Professor of English. He has lectured at many universities worldwide. At present he is Charles P Stevenson Jr Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College, New York State, Annandale where he now lives.

    Achebe's work has mostly to do with African politics and the way Africa and Africans are depicted in the West. I also fouses on pre-colonial African culture and civilization, as well as the effects of colonialisation on African societies.

    Things Fall Apart was published in 1958, and is considered among the finest novels ever written. Having sold over 10 million copies around the world, it has been translated into 50 languages, making Achebe the most translated African writer of all time. He is the recipient of over 30 honorary degrees as well as numerous awards for his work.

    Chinua Achebe has written over 20 books, including novels, short stories, essays and collections of poetry.

6 Novels
Things Fall Apart 1958; No Longer at Ease 1960; Arrow of God 1964; A Man of the People 1966;
Chike and the River 1966; Anthills of the Savannah 1988

5 Volumes of Short Stories
The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories 1962; Civil Peace 1971; Girls at War and Other Stories 1973;
African Short Stories (editor, with C.L. Innes) 1985;
Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (editor, with C.L. Innes) 1992

4 Volumes of Poetry
Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems 1971 published in the US as *Christmas at Biafra, and Other Poems, 1973
Don't let him die: An anthology of memorial poems for Christopher Okigbo (editor, with D.Okafor) 1978
Another Africa 1998; Collected Poems 2004

Essays, Criticism and Political Commentary
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" 1975
Morning Yet on Creation Day 1975; The Trouble With Nigeria 1984
Hopes and Impediments 1988; Home and Exile 2000

4 Children's Books
Dead Men's Path 1972; How the Leopard Got His Claws (with John Iroaganachi) 1972;
The Flute 1975; The Drum 1978