Chinua Achebe Narrating Africa in Fictions and History

<p><b>An imaginative, narratological reading of Chinua Achebe''s novels, stories, poetry, and essays through a literary and historical framework.</b><br><br>Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe’s literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa''s present and future. In particular, he focuses on the historical valuation of a full range of the writer''s works – novels including <i>Things Fall Apart</i>, but also short stories, poems, and essays – as important materials that have contributed to the political events in Nigeria and, by extension, Africa. <br><br>The raw creativity found in Achebe’s stories and his ability to tell the Nigerian story – precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial – have endeared him to many, including readers and those critical of him and his works. <i>Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History </i>analyzes all of the writer’s works, dwelling on the Nigerian political context upon which many, if not all, of his narratives lie. As a result, it examines methodologies of narration and ideologies that allow his works to resonate with the imagination of Africa.</p>