A feminist reading of Achebe's texts is a restoration of the visions of women not only in Africa's past but also in the continent's present and the future.
Achebe had a keen grasp of how language demonstrated power, how power determined what was considered knowledge, and how this knowledge could become truth.
The feminist champions of Hausa literature have their pens ready, full of fire, energy and imagination, emitting hidden truths through their words, and steadily reinventing the narratives of women in Northern Nigeria.
Overflowing with idioms and a style of writing that mimics Igbo folklore, Arrow of God is a masterclass in Achebe’s ability to translate Igbo feelings into English.
Both Heart of Darkness and Things Fall Apart use suggestive language to explore imperialism—only one, however, gives the victims of imperialism their humanity.
Who really was Amos Tutuola? An amazing but naïve primitivist? An ethnographic curiosity? A quasi-plagiarist of the fantastical creations of D.O. Fagunwa? The most likely answer: he was all of these but also more.
While Nigerian support for Zimbabwean and broader southern African liberation was extensive, it was considerably more nuanced and more fractured than often remembered.
With the rise in white supremacist and nationalist movements around the world, often overlooked is the important history of Africa's role in anti-Fascism.
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