Chinua Achebe

In a small Nigerian tribe, Okonkwo has worked all his life to overcome his father's weakness and has arrived, finally, at great prosperity and even greater reputation among his fellows in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, husband to three wives and father to several children. Unfortunately, a series of tragic events tests the mettle of this strong man, and it is his fear of weakness that ultimately undoes...

"My favorite novel." —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“A magical writer—one of the greatest of the twentieth century.” —Margaret Atwood
 
“African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison                   
The second novel in Chinua Achebe’s masterful African trilogy,...

Collects three of the author's novels, all inspired by the tragedies faced by the Igbo people during the European colonization of Africa.

A satire of political corruption in the fictional west African nation of Kangan.

In African Rhapsody, esteemed scholar and critic Nadežda Obradović has assembled twenty-five stories by the best emerging and award-winning contemporary African writers. As distinct and complex as the nations the writers come from, these stories illuminate the realities, the hardships and brief respites, of contemporary African life. The publication of many authors for the first time in the United States and the inclusion of female voices distinguish...