The Education of a British-Protected Child

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'His is a voice that roars . . . one of the world's most important thinkers and writers' Bernardine Evaristo, Independent This acclaimed volume of autobiographical essays is one of Chinua Achebe's most powerful and personal works to date, containing reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics. From an ironic and delicately nuanced portrait of his love of reading while growing up in colonial Nigeria, to later pieces on the nation post-independence and on his lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa', these diverse, witty and passionately honest writings give us a vivid new insight into Achebe the man and the writer. 'The essays are models of clarity, care and thoughtfulness' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times

Born in 1930, Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe is probably black Africa's most widely read novelist. His first work, Things Fall Apart, is regarded as a classic of world literature and has been translated into 40 languages. Introducer Biography- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria and now lives in the United States. She is the author of Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sunand The Thing Around Your Neck.

'Achebe is one of the founding fathers of African literature ... his writing crackles with animated dialogue, laugh-out-loud humour and clever turns of phrase' * Guardian *