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Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now, in Home and Exile, Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work. Edexcel Limited gratefully acknowledges the following sources in the preparation of this paper: Remember, Christina Rossetti, from The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 1996. Refugee Mother and Child,Chinua Achebe, from Touched with Fire, 1993. M18963A 4 Eng138260M18963A.qxd 10:14 Page 4.
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About Home and Exile “A rare opportunity to glimpse a bit of the man behind the monumental novels.” — Chicago Tribune Powerful and deeply personal, these three essays by the great Nigerian author articulate his mission to rescue African culture from the narratives written by Europeans. Looking through the prism of his experiences as a student in English schools in Nigeria, he recalls his first encounters with European perspectives on Africa in the works of Joyce Cary and Elspeth Huxley. He examines the impact that his novel Things Fall Apart —as well as fellow Nigerian Amos Tutola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard and Jomo Kenyatta’s Facing Mt. Kenya, among other works —had on efforts to reclaim Africa’s story. He confronts the persistence of colonial views of Africa.
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And he argues for the importance of living and writing the African experience: Africa needs stories told by Africans.