Chinua Achebe: A Biography.

World Literature Today | June 22, 1998| | Copyright

Ezenwa-Ohaeto. Bloomington/Oxford. Indiana University Press / James Currey. 1997. xii + 326 pages + 12 plates. $29.95. ISBN 0-253-33342-3.

In the preface to his deeply involved and thoroughly researched biography of the Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, Ezenwa-Ohaeto finds assurance in the fact that Achebe approved of the project. A brief note from Achebe to the publishers concludes with something of a veiled challenge, a kind of preemptive dare, and an avuncular bit of guidance: "I have no doubt that he [Ezenwa-Ohaeto] will bring to both research and writing a sense of ...

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