African Writer and English Language

African Writer and English Language

Achebe considered the "father of modern African literature," Buffalo is tonight as the writer of openness in the 2008-2009 series of readings and Babel discussions with personalities from the world literature. The event, which begins at 8 pm at Asbury Hall in Babeville, 341 Delaware Avenue, has been sold for several weeks.

Born in 1930, to Christian parents in the Igbo village of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe was highlighted in a succession of colonial schools that culminated in the School of Government of Nigeria in Umuahia, where she immersed herself in English literature ...