Chinua Achebe
{{Infobox writer
| image         = Chinua Achebe, 1966.jpg
| alt           = Achebe in blue cap at lectern
| caption       = Achebe sa [[Lagos]], 1966
| birth_name    = Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe
| birth_date    = {{birth date|df=y|1930|11|16}}
| birth_place   = [[Ogidi, Anambra|Ogidi]], [[Kolonyal na Nigeria]]
| death_date    = {{death date and age|df=y|2013|03|21|1930|11|16}}
| death_place   = [[Boston, Massachusetts]], US
| resting_place = Ogidi, Nigeria
| notable_works = {{Plainlist|
* "The African Trilogy":
*— ''[[Things Fall Apart]]'' (1958)
*— ''[[No Longer at Ease]]'' (1960)
*— ''[[Arrow of God]]'' (1964)
* ''[[A Man of the People]]'' (1966)
* ''[[Anthills of the Savannah]]'' (1987)
* [[#Writings|List of works]]
}}
| language      = English
| movement      = {{cslist|[[Aprikanong literatura]]|[[post-kolonyal na literatura]]}}
| children      = 4, kaiba si [[Chidi Chike Achebe|Chidi]] asin [[Nwando Achebe]]
}}

Si '''Chinua Achebe''' (/ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/ namondag '''Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe'''; 16 Nobyembre 1930 – 21 Marso 2013) sarong Nigeryanong nobelista, pararawit, asin kritiko na hinihiling siya bilang pigurang sentral sa modernong literaturang Aprikano. An enot niyang nobela na ''magnum opus'', Things Fall Apart (1958), nakakaag sa lugar na sentral na gayo sa Aprikanong literatura asin iyo an mahiwas na obrang inaadalan, ipinapalis, asin binabasang nobelang Aprikano. Kaiba kan  Things Fall Apart, an No Longer at Ease (1960) asin Arrow of God (1964) sinasangkap kan inapod na "Aprikanong Trilohiya"; dangan nagsurunod pa an mga nobelang A Man of the People (1966) asin Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Si Achebe parati binabansagan na "Ama 
nin Aprikanong literatura", dawa ngani dai niya inaako an siring na bansag.<ref>https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chinua-Achebe. Kinua  2023-03-22 </ref>

Namundag sa Ogidi, Kolonyal Nigeria, an pagkaaki ni Achebe impluwensiyadong gayo kan Igbong kulturang tradisyonal  asin kan postkolonyal na Kristyanidad. Siya nagpahiling nin husay komo estudyante asin nagklase sa ngonyan inapod nang University of Ibadan, kun saen siya makuring kritikal asin tinutuyaw na gayo kun pano linaladawan kan literaturang Solnopan an Aprika. Paghubo' sa Lagos pakagradwar, siya nagtrabaho sa Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) asin naghakot nin pagreparo internasyonal kan saiyang 1958 na nobelang Things Fall Apart. Sa laog nin 10 taon, siya nakapalagda pa nin apat na nobela paagi ki taga-publikar na si Heinemann, kun saen saiyang pinu'nan an Heinemann African Writers Series na nagpukaw asin nagbusol sa mga karera kan mga parasurat na Aprikano, siring ki Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o asin Flora Nwapa.<ref>https://www.bing.com/search?q=chinua+achebe&filters=ufn%3a%22Chinua+Achebe%22+sid%3a%22195a1074-e8d6-14c5-6007-Kinua 2023-03-22.</ref>

Si Achebe pighingowa na makalungkas sa perspektibong kolonyal na iyo an nagtataong sukol sa literaturang Aprikano kaidtong panahon na idto, asin imbes siya nagguguno sa tradisyon, kinaugalean kan banwang Igbo, mga impluwensyang Kristyano, asin sa siplingan kan kaugdan na Solnopan asin Aprikano ngani makamukna' nin tunay na boses Aprikano. Siya nagsurat asin sinurog an pag'usar nin Ingles, ta ini an makakaabot sa mas mahiwas na mga parabasa, orog na sa mga parabasa sa mga nasyon na kolonyal. Kan 1975 siya nagtao nin lekturang kontrobersyal, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness", na nagin tandaan sa diskursong postkolonyal. Napublikar sa The Massachusetts Review, ini nagtampok kan kritisismo ki Albert Schweitzer asin Joseph Conrad, na sabi ni Achebe makuri asin "labis na rasista." Kan an rona' nin Biafra naglitik sa Nigeria kan 1967, si Achebe nag'anduyog sa independensya nin Biafra asin nagpapel bilang embahador para sa mga kagtulod kan hiron na idto. An mga suminunod na Gera Sibil nin Nigeria nagratak na biyo' sa populasyon asin ta siya nag'awod sa mga taga-Europa asin Amerika na magpadarang tabang. Kan an gobyerno Nigeryano sinakop an rona' giraray kan 1970, siya nag'imbwelto sa mga partido politika alagad biyo' siyang nawaran-gana kan nahiling niya an korupsyon asin elitismo sa mga politiko. Siya nagdakit sa Estados Unidos asin nag'estar duman nin pirang taon kan mga 1970, asin nagpuli na kuta alagad kan 1990 nagbalik sa Amerika kan siya naaksidente sa auto na nagpabyadi sa hawak niya. Siya nagtener sa Amerika nin siyam na polong taon partikular sa Bard College bilang propesor sa mga lenggwahe asin literatura.

Pakagana niya kan 2007 Man Booker International Prize, poon 2009 sagkod kan saiyang pagkagadan, siya Professor of African Studies sa  Brown University. An trabaho ni Achebe mahiwasan na pinag'uugid asin pinag'aadalan mala ta nagbutwa an mala-iskolar na mga trabaho dapit kan saiyang mga sinurat. Kadugangan kan saiyang mga nobela, an mga obra ni Achebe nagbibilang pa an dakul na mga halipot na osipon, rawitdawit, mga saysay asin mga librong pan-aki. An estilo niya sarig na gayo sa Igbo'ng tradisyon oral, asin pinagsaro an tanos na pag'uusipon na pigramasan nin mga istoryang-banwaan, mga ariwaga' asin platika. Sa mga tema kan saiyang sinurat kabali an kultura asin kolonyalismo, maskulinidad, asin pemenidad, politika asin historya. An saiyang pamana asin legasiya pig'oonra sa taonan na Chinua Achebe Literary Festival.

==Mga Sinurat==
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'''Mga  Nobela'''{{sfn|Evalds|1977|p=83}}{{sfn|Lindfors|1978|p=103}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1958 |title=[[Things Fall Apart]] |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=London }} New York: [[Astor-Honor]], 1959.
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1960 |title=[[No Longer at Ease]] |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }} New York: Obolensky, 1961.
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1964 |title=[[Arrow of God]] |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }} New York: [[John Day Company|John Day]], 1967.
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1966 |title=[[A Man of the People]] |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }} New York: [[John Day Company|John Day]], 1966.
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1987 |title=[[Anthills of the Savannah]] |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }} New York: [[Anchor Press]]/[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], 1987

'''Mga Halipot na Osipon'''{{sfn|Evalds|1977|p=83}}{{sfn|Lindfors|1978|p=103}}
* {{cite news |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1951 |title=In a Village Church }}{{sfn|Purcell|2020|p=108}}
* {{cite journal |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1952a |title=The Old Order in Conflict with the New |journal=University Herald |author-mask=2 }} (Revised as {{harvnb|Achebe|1962b}} and {{harvnb|Achebe|1972b}})
* {{cite news |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1953 |title=[[Dead Men's Path]] |author-mask=2 }} (Republished in {{harvnb|Achebe|1962a}}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=233}})
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1960 |title=Chike's School Days |journal=Rotarian |volume=96 |issue=4 |pages=19–20 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite book |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1962a |title=The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories |publisher=Etudo Ltd. |location=Onitsha |author-mask=2 }}
** {{cite book |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1962b |chapter=Beginning of the End |title=The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories |author-mask=2 }} (A revision of {{harvnb|Achebe|1952a}}; revised in {{harvnb|Achebe|1972b}})
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1965 |title=The Voter |author-mask=2 }} 
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1971 |title=[[Civil Peace]] |journal=Okike |volume=2 |author-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=11}}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1972 |title=Sugar Baby |journal=Okike |volume=3 |pages=8–16 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1972a |title=Girls at War and Other Stories |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }} Garden City: [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], 1973.
** {{cite book |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1972b |chapter=Marriage Is a Private Affair |title=Girls at War and Other Stories |author-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Purcell|2013|p=81}} (A revision of {{harvnb|Achebe|1962b}} and {{harvnb|Achebe|1972b}}){{sfn|Booker|2003|p=207}}
** {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1972c |chapter=[[Vengeful Creditor]] |title=Girls at War and Other Stories |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite book  |ref=none |editor-last1=Achebe |editor-first1=Chinua |editor-last2=Innes |editor-first2=C. L. |year=1985 |title=African Short Stories: Twenty Stories from Across the Continent |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=Portsmouth |editor-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=11}}
* {{cite book  |ref=none |editor-last1=Achebe |editor-first1=Chinua |editor-last2=Innes |editor-first2=C. L. |year=1992 |title=The Heineman Book of Contemporary African Short Stories |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=Portsmouth |editor-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=101}}

'''Rawitdawit'''{{sfn|Evalds|1977|p=84}}{{sfn|Lindfors|1978|p=104}}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1951–1952 |title=There was a Young Man in Our Hall |journal=University Herald |volume=4 |issue=3 |page=19 }}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1971 |title=Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems |publisher=Nwankwo-Ifejika |location=Enugu |author-mask=2 }} London: [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]], 1972. 
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1973 |title=Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |location=Garden City |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1973 |title=Flying |journal=Okike |volume=4 |pages=47–48 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1974 |title=The Old Man and the Census |journal=Okike |volume=6 |pages=41–42 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite book  |ref=none |editor-last1=Achebe |editor-first1=Chinua |editor-last2=Okafor |editor-first2=Dubem |year=1978 |title=Don't Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial Poems for Christopher Okigbo |publisher=Fourth Dimension Publishers |location=Enugu |editor-mask=2 }}
* {{cite book  |ref=none |last1=Achebe |first1=Chinua |last2=Lyons |first2=Robert |year=1998 |title=Another Africa |publisher=[[Anchor Books]] |location=New York |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=2004 |title=Collected Poems |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }}

'''Mga Saysay, kritisismo asin mga artikulo'''{{sfn|Lindfors|1978|pp=104–105}}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=21 February 1951 |title=Philosophy |journal=The Bug |page=5 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1951 |title=An Argument Against the Existence of Faculties |journal=University Herald |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=12–13 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1951–1952 |title=Editorial |journal=University Herald |volume=4 |issue=3 |page=5 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1952 |title=Editorial |journal=University Herald |volume=5 |issue=1 |page=5 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=29 November 1952 |title=Mr. Okafor Versus Arts Students |journal=The Bug |page=3 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=29 November 1952 |title=Hiawatha |journal=The Bug |page=3 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite news |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=January 1958 |title=Eminent Nigerians of the 19th Century |work=Radio Times |page=3 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite news |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=January 1959 |title=Listening in the East |work=Radio Times |page=17 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite news |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=6 May 1961 |title=Two West African Library Journals |work=The Service |page=15 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite news |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=23–29 July 1961 |title=Amos Tutuola |work=Radio Times |page=2 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite news |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=7 July 1962 |title=Writers' Conference: A Milestone in Africa's Profress |work=[[Daily Times (Nigeria)|Daily Times]] |page=7 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite news |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=15 July 1962 |title=Conference of African Writers |work=Radio Times |page=6 |author-mask=2 }}
* —— (1962). "Introduction" to {{cite book |ref=none |last=King |first=Delphine |year=1962 |title=Dreams of Twilight: A Book of Poems |publisher=Nigerian National Press |location=Apapa |page=5 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=December 1962 |title=Review of Christopher Okigbo's ''Heavensgate'' |journal=Spear |page=41 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=January 1963 |title=Review of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo's ''Twenty-Four Poems'' |journal=Spear |page=41 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=June 1963 |title=A Look at West African Writing |journal=Spear |page=26 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=1963 |title=Voice of Nigeria–How it Began |journal=[[Voice of Nigeria]] |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=5–6 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=December 1963 |title=Are We Men of Two Worlds? |journal=Spear |page=13 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=1963 |title=On Janheinz Jahn and Ezekiel Mphahlele |journal=Transition |volume=8 |page=9 |doi=10.2307/2934524 |jstor=2934524 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1964 |title=The Role of the Writer in a New Nation |journal=Nigerian Libraries |volume=1 |issue=3 |pages=113–119 |author-mask=2 }} Nigeria Magazine. '''81''': 157–160.
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |editor-last=Whiteley |editor-first=W. H. |year=1964 |title=A Selection of African Prose |chapter=Foreword |publisher=[[Clarendon Press]] |location=Oxford |pages=vii–x |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1965 |title=English and the African Writer |journal=[[Transition Magazine|Transition]] |publisher=[[Indiana University Press]] |issue=18 |pages=27–30 |jstor=2934835 |doi=10.2307/2934835 |issn=0041-1191 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=1966 |title=The Black Writer's Burden |journal=[[Présence Africaine]] |volume=31 |issue=59 |pages=135–140 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=1971 |title=Editorial |journal=Nsukkascope |volume=1 |pages=1–4 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=1971 |title=Editorial |journal=Nsukkascope |volume=2 |pages=1–5 |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=1971 |title=Editorial |journal=Nsukkascope |volume=3 |pages=4–5 |author-mask=2 }}
* —— (1962). "Introduction" to {{cite book |ref=none |last=Awoonor |first=Kofi |author-link=Kofi Awoonor |title=This Earth, My Brother... |publisher=[[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] |location=Garden City |pages=vii–xii }}
* —— (1962). "Introduction" to {{cite book |ref=none |last=Kgositsile |first=Keorapetse |author-link=Keorapetse Kgositsile |year=1975 |title=Places and Bloodstains [Notes for Ipeleng] |publisher=Achebe Publications |location=Oakland |page=7 }}
* {{cite journal |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |date=1975 |title=[[An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness|An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's ''Heart of Darkness'']] |journal=The Chancellor's Lecture Series |publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Amherst]] |location=Amherst |pages=31–43 |author-mask=2 }} also in ''[[Hopes and Impediments]]''
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1975 |title=Morning Yet on Creation Day: Essays |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=289}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1983 |title=The Trouble With Nigeria |publisher=Fourth Dimension Publishers |location=Enugu |author-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=289}} London: [[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]], 1984.
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1988 |title=[[Hopes and Impediments|Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays]] |publisher=[[Heinemann (publisher)|Heinemann]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=289}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=2000 |title=Home and Exile |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |location=New York |author-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=289}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=2009 |title=The Education of a British-Protected Child |publisher=[[Penguin Classics]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=2012 |title=[[There Was A Country|There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra]] |publisher=[[Penguin Classics]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=2018 |title=Africa's Tarnished Name |publisher=[[Penguin Classics]] |location=London |author-mask=2 }}

'''Mga Librong Pan-aki'''{{sfn|Evalds|1977|p=83}}{{sfn|Lindfors|1978|p=103}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1966 |title=[[Chike and the River]] |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge }}
* {{cite book  |ref=none |last1=Achebe |first1=Chinua |last2=Iroaganachi |first2=John |year=1972 |title=How the Leopard Got His Claws |publisher=Nwamife |location=Enugu |author-mask=2 }} New York: [[Third World Press]], 1973.
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1977 |title=The Drum |publisher=Fourth Dimension Publishers |location=Enugu |author-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=74}}
* {{cite book |ref=none |last=Achebe |first=Chinua |year=1977 |title=The Flute |publisher=Fourth Dimension Publishers |location=Enugu |author-mask=2 }}{{sfn|Booker|2003|p=86}}
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Si Chinua Achebe (/ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/ namondag Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 Nobyembre 1930 – 21 Marso 2013) sarong Nigeryanong nobelista, pararawit, asin kritiko na hinihiling siya bilang pigurang sentral sa modernong literaturang Aprikano. An enot niyang nobela na magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), nakakaag sa lugar na sentral na gayo sa Aprikanong literatura asin iyo an mahiwas na obrang inaadalan, ipinapalis, asin binabasang nobelang Aprikano. Kaiba kan  Things Fall Apart, an No Longer at Ease (1960) asin Arrow of God (1964) sinasangkap kan inapod na "Aprikanong Trilohiya"; dangan nagsurunod pa an mga nobelang A Man of the People (1966) asin Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Si Achebe parati binabansagan na "Ama 
nin Aprikanong literatura", dawa ngani dai niya inaako an siring na bansag.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chinua-Achebe. Kinua  2023-03-22 

Namundag sa Ogidi, Kolonyal Nigeria, an pagkaaki ni Achebe impluwensiyadong gayo kan Igbong kulturang tradisyonal  asin kan postkolonyal na Kristyanidad. Siya nagpahiling nin husay komo estudyante asin nagklase sa ngonyan inapod nang University of Ibadan, kun saen siya makuring kritikal asin tinutuyaw na gayo kun pano linaladawan kan literaturang Solnopan an Aprika. Paghubo' sa Lagos pakagradwar, siya nagtrabaho sa Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) asin naghakot nin pagreparo internasyonal kan saiyang 1958 na nobelang Things Fall Apart. Sa laog nin 10 taon, siya nakapalagda pa nin apat na nobela paagi ki taga-publikar na si Heinemann, kun saen saiyang pinu'nan an Heinemann African Writers Series na nagpukaw asin nagbusol sa mga karera kan mga parasurat na Aprikano, siring ki Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o asin Flora Nwapa.https://www.bing.com/search?q=chinua+achebe&filters=ufn%3a%22Chinua+Achebe%22+sid%3a%22195a1074-e8d6-14c5-6007-Kinua 2023-03-22.

Si Achebe pighingowa na makalungkas sa perspektibong kolonyal na iyo an nagtataong sukol sa literaturang Aprikano kaidtong panahon na idto, asin imbes siya nagguguno sa tradisyon, kinaugalean kan banwang Igbo, mga impluwensyang Kristyano, asin sa siplingan kan kaugdan na Solnopan asin Aprikano ngani makamukna' nin tunay na boses Aprikano. Siya nagsurat asin sinurog an pag'usar nin Ingles, ta ini an makakaabot sa mas mahiwas na mga parabasa, orog na sa mga parabasa sa mga nasyon na kolonyal. Kan 1975 siya nagtao nin lekturang kontrobersyal, "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness", na nagin tandaan sa diskursong postkolonyal. Napublikar sa The Massachusetts Review, ini nagtampok kan kritisismo ki Albert Schweitzer asin Joseph Conrad, na sabi ni Achebe makuri asin "labis na rasista." Kan an rona' nin Biafra naglitik sa Nigeria kan 1967, si Achebe nag'anduyog sa independensya nin Biafra asin nagpapel bilang embahador para sa mga kagtulod kan hiron na idto. An mga suminunod na Gera Sibil nin Nigeria nagratak na biyo' sa populasyon asin ta siya nag'awod sa mga taga-Europa asin Amerika na magpadarang tabang. Kan an gobyerno Nigeryano sinakop an rona' giraray kan 1970, siya nag'imbwelto sa mga partido politika alagad biyo' siyang nawaran-gana kan nahiling niya an korupsyon asin elitismo sa mga politiko. Siya nagdakit sa Estados Unidos asin nag'estar duman nin pirang taon kan mga 1970, asin nagpuli na kuta alagad kan 1990 nagbalik sa Amerika kan siya naaksidente sa auto na nagpabyadi sa hawak niya. Siya nagtener sa Amerika nin siyam na polong taon partikular sa Bard College bilang propesor sa mga lenggwahe asin literatura.

Pakagana niya kan 2007 Man Booker International Prize, poon 2009 sagkod kan saiyang pagkagadan, siya Professor of African Studies sa  Brown University. An trabaho ni Achebe mahiwasan na pinag'uugid asin pinag'aadalan mala ta nagbutwa an mala-iskolar na mga trabaho dapit kan saiyang mga sinurat. Kadugangan kan saiyang mga nobela, an mga obra ni Achebe nagbibilang pa an dakul na mga halipot na osipon, rawitdawit, mga saysay asin mga librong pan-aki. An estilo niya sarig na gayo sa Igbo'ng tradisyon oral, asin pinagsaro an tanos na pag'uusipon na pigramasan nin mga istoryang-banwaan, mga ariwaga' asin platika. Sa mga tema kan saiyang sinurat kabali an kultura asin kolonyalismo, maskulinidad, asin pemenidad, politika asin historya. An saiyang pamana asin legasiya pig'oonra sa taonan na Chinua Achebe Literary Festival.

Mga Sinurat

Mga  Nobela
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  New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1987

Mga Halipot na Osipon
 
  (Revised as  and )
  (Republished in )
 
 
  (A revision of ; revised in )
  
 
 
  Garden City: Doubleday, 1973.
  (A revision of  and )
 
 
 

Rawitdawit
 
  London: Heinemann, 1972. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mga Saysay, kritisismo asin mga artikulo
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 —— (1962). "Introduction" to 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  Nigeria Magazine. 81: 157–160.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 —— (1962). "Introduction" to 
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  also in Hopes and Impediments
 
  London: Heinemann, 1984.
 
 
 
 
 

Mga Librong Pan-aki
 
  New York: Third World Press, 1973.
 
 

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