ACHEBE OPENED THE DOOR FOR US

Before Chinua Achebe came on the world literary scene in the late 1950s, African literature was treated by the rest of the world, and more sadly, by many educated Africans themselves, as a quixotic exercise in which forests and spirits held sway. At best, its fruits were relegated to footnotes in anthropological tomes by foreigners seeking validation from authentic African ?non-oral? evidence. Or at worst, as examples of the confused babbling that the ?half-baked education? provided by ... Read More Read Full Story