At the Crossroads Hour
Lewis Nkosi: Chinua Achebe, 12 November 1998
Chinua Achebe: A Biography
by Ezenwa-Ohaeto.
Curry, 326 pp., £25, November 1997,0 253 33342 3 Show More
by Ezenwa-Ohaeto.
Curry, 326 pp., £25, November 1997,
“... which is very much a matter of textual resistance, in particular to Conrad and to Cary’s Mister Johnson: ‘One big message I try to put across is that Africa was not a vacuum before the coming of Europe, that culture was not brought to Africa by the white world … We too had our history, traditions, cultures, civilisations.’ Achebe is not without his ... ”