Achebe, Chinua: 1930 - 2013
Information by Chinua Achebe
- At home in Ogidi, Southeast Nigeria, Chinua Achebe discusses the roots of his stories and his portrayal of both the sophisticated culture of his people and the conflicts within the modern state of Nigeria. BBC; July 13, 1990 (Primary-source companion to Things Fall Apart)
- The Art of Fiction; interview with Jerome Brooks; The Paris Review; Winter, 1994 (pdf 25 pages) (gives insight into why Achebe wrote Things Fall Apart)
- An Evening with Chinua Achebe, held in connection with his 78. birthday. Library of Congress, 2009 (Captures Achebe's thoughts on African literature, colonial history, etc.)
- Chinua Achebe sees postcolonial cultures taking shape story by story: "Even after the slave trade was abolished in the nineteenth century, something like this literature continued, serving the new imperialistic needs of Europe in relation to Africa." (The quotation about colonial literature and European imperial needs connects directly to the Things Fall Apart's purpose: challenging colonial representations of Africa) The Atlantic; August 2, 2000