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Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'Memories of Chinua Achebe at the University of Texas at Austin

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart': Memories of Chinua Achebe at the... [This chapter is a personal narrative that gives insight into who Chinua Achebe was: a friend, a scholar, and a pioneer of African literature. Quotations are taken from remarks he made while speaking at the University of Texas at Austin. I first met Chinua Achebe fifty-seven years ago when I was teaching English and History at a boys’ boarding school in Western Kenya. I did not meet him in person. He was then not really a person but only a name on a book that I had managed to borrow by post from the library of Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, which had an enlightened and very generous lending policy available to anyone in East Africa who had some connection, however slight, with the university. I had participated in a six-week orientation program there before going out to my school, so I was eligible for this kind of academic philanthropy, and I took full advantage of it, borrowing at least two books a month from 1961 to 1963. Fortunately, I had picked up a copy of Janheinz Jahn’s Muntu, which had been published just before I left the United States, so I could use his chapter on literature as a shopping guide to the African holdings at Makerere.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart'Memories of Chinua Achebe at the University of Texas at Austin

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series
Editors: Baloubi, Désiré; Pinkston, Christina R.
Lindfors, Bernth
Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of 'Things Fall Apart' — Dec 10, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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978-3-030-50796-1
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10.1007/978-3-030-50797-8_1
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[This chapter is a personal narrative that gives insight into who Chinua Achebe was: a friend, a scholar, and a pioneer of African literature. Quotations are taken from remarks he made while speaking at the University of Texas at Austin. I first met Chinua Achebe fifty-seven years ago when I was teaching English and History at a boys’ boarding school in Western Kenya. I did not meet him in person. He was then not really a person but only a name on a book that I had managed to borrow by post from the library of Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, which had an enlightened and very generous lending policy available to anyone in East Africa who had some connection, however slight, with the university. I had participated in a six-week orientation program there before going out to my school, so I was eligible for this kind of academic philanthropy, and I took full advantage of it, borrowing at least two books a month from 1961 to 1963. Fortunately, I had picked up a copy of Janheinz Jahn’s Muntu, which had been published just before I left the United States, so I could use his chapter on literature as a shopping guide to the African holdings at Makerere.]

Published: Dec 10, 2020

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