Albert Chinualumogu Achebe Net Worth is $1.5 Million
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria as Albert Chinualumogu Achebe. He was a writer, known for Things Fall Apart (1971), Things Fall Apart (1987) and History of the Negro People (1965). He was married to Christie Okoli and Christine Chinwe Okoli. He died on March 21, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Augustine Nduka Achebe, John Chukwuemeka Ifeanyichukwu Achebe, Zinobia Uzoma Ikpeze, Grace Nwanneka Achebe, Frank Okwuofu Achebe
Awards
Man Booker International Prize, Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, St. Louis Literary Award
Nominations
Booker Prize, Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Star Sign
Scorpio
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[on the impact of the literature he encountered when being educated in British-style schools] I did not see myself as an African in those books. I took sides with the white men against the savages. The white man was good and reasonable and smart and courageous. The savages arrayed against him were sinister and stupid, never anything higher than cunning. I hated their guts. [But later I realized] these writers had pulled a fast one on me! I was not on Marlowe's boat steaming up the Congo in 'Heart of Darkness'. Rather, I was one of those unattractive beings jumping up and down on the riverbank, making horrid faces.
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What has consistently escaped most Nigerians in this entire travesty is the fact that mediocrity destroys the very fabric of a country as surely as a war - ushering in all sorts of banality, ineptitude, corruption and debauchery.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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He began writing in the 1950s, at a time when many African nations were becoming independent of British and French colonial rule. He felt that Africa's stories were being written by outsiders.
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A car accident in 1990 paralyzed him from the waist down. Since then, he has lived in the US because his medical needs cannot be met in Nigeria.
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In February 2009, he visited Nigeria for only the second time in 20 years, to speak at a festival of his ethnic group, the Igbo people. He received a hero's welcome, with huge throngs greeting him at the Abuja airport and following him around the country.
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Emeritus professor of English at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.