Seminar Writers

African Writers:-

- CHINUA ACHEBE (Nigeria)

1) Chinua Achebe: An Overview

2) Chinua Achebe (1930-) - in full Albert Chinualumogu Achebe

3) Chinua Achebe - Bibliography

4) Chinua Achebe - In His Own Words

5) Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: Teaching Through the Novel
This lesson introduces students to Achebe's first novel and to his views on the role of the writer in his or her society.

6) Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Oral and Literary Strategies
Through close reading and textual analysis of Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's 1958 novel about the British colonization of Nigeria, students learn how oral, linguistic, and literary strategies are used to present one’s own story and history through literature.

- AMA ATA AIDOO (Ghana)

1) Ama Ata Aidoo: An Overview

2) Ama Ata Aidoo's Publications

3) Ama Ata Aidoo's Page on BBC

4) Photos of Ama Ata Aidoo

- WOLE SOYINKA (Nigeria)

1) Wole Soyinka: An Overview

2) Conversation with Wole Soyinka - cover page

3) Wole Soyinka Study Guide

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Western Writers:-

- JOSEPH CONRAD

1) About Joseph Conrad

2) Biography of Joseph Conrad

3) Barbara Kingsolver

4) Biography of Barbara Kingsolver

 

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