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HOME AND EXILE, Chinua Achebe
More personally revealing than anything
Achebe has written, this is a major statement
on the importance of stories as real
sources of power, especially for those
whose stories have traditionally been
told by outsiders.
In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks
to rescue African culture from narratives
written about it by Europeans. Looking
through the prism of his experiences
as a student in English schools in Nigeria,
he provides devastating examples of European
cultural imperialism. He examines the
impact that his novel Things Fall
Apart had on efforts to reclaim Africa's
story. And he argues for the importance
of writing and living the African experience
because, he believes, Africa needs stories
told by Africans.
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