Chinua Achebe bibliography

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) wrote African stories from an African perspective, and his debut novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), has been used in school curricula;^[1] It sold more than twelve million copies and has been translated into more than sixty languages.^[2] Achebe was first regarded as the "father of modern African literature" by Nadine Gordimer,^[3] although he rejected the title throughout his career.^[4]

Achebe published five novels: Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, and Anthills of the Savannah,^[a] and four children's books: Chike and the River, How the Leopard Got His Claws, The Flute, and The Drum; and two short story collections: The Sacrificial Egg and Girls at War; four essay collections: Morning Yet on Creation Day, Hopes and Impediments, Home and Exile, and The Education of a British-Protected Child; a book of political criticism, The Trouble with Nigeria, and a memoir, There Was a Country.^[6] Achebe's Another Africa contains one essay and poems, and also photographs by Robert Lyons.^[7]

American literary critic Elaine Showalter considers Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah as Achebe's best books.^[8] Achebe's works have been extensively studied by academics and scholars, and won him several awards. His legacy is celebrated annually during the Chinua Achebe Literary Festival. South African politician Nelson Mandela described him as "the writer in whose company the prison walls came down".^[9]

Source:^[10][11][12]

• Things Fall Apart (1958). London: Heinemann African Writers Series, No. 1; New York: Astor-Honor, 1959 OCLC 10730671^[11]
• No Longer at Ease (1960). London: Heinemann African Writers Series, No. 3; New York: Obolensky, 1961. OCLC 15593827 ^[11]
• Arrow of God (1964). London: Heinemann African Writers Series, No. 16; New York: John Day, 1967. OCLC 13904845 ^[11]
• A Man of the People (1966). London: Heinemann African Writers Series, No. 31; New York: John Day OCLC 367876 ^[11]
• Anthills of the Savannah (1987). London: Heinemann African Writers Series [unnumbered]. OCLC 16225418

Source:^[10]

• Chike and the River (1966). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press OCLC 728183723 ^[11]
• How the Leopard Got His Claws (1972). Enugu: Nwamife Publications; New York: The Third Press, 1973 OCLC 2304372^[11][b]
• The Drum (1977). London: Heinemann.^[14] ISBN 978-0434006045
• The Flute (1977). Enugu, Nigeria: Fourth Dimension Publishers.^[15] OCLC 8796371

Source:^[10][11]

• "Are We Men of Two Worlds?" (1963). Spear.
• "The Role of the Writer in a New Nation" (1964). Nigerian Libraries, pages 113–119.
• "Philosophy" (21 February 1951). The Bug.
• "An Argument Against the Existence of Faculties" (1951). University Herald.
• "Mr. Okafor Versus Arts Students" (29 November 1952). The Bug.
• "Hiawatha" (29 November 1952). The Bug.
• "Eminent Nigerians of the 19th Century" (1958). Radio Times.
• "Listening in the East" (1959). Radio Times.
• "Two West African Library Journals" (6 May 1961). The Service.
• "Amos Tutuola" (29 July 1961). Radio Times.
• "Writers' Conference: A Milestone in Africa's Profress" (7 July 1962). Daily Times.
• "Conference of African Writers" (15 July 1962). Radio Times.

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• "A Look at West African Writing" (1963). Spear
• "How it Began" (1963). Voice of Nigeria.
• "On Janheinz Jahn and Ezekiel Mphahlele" (1963). Transition Magazine. doi:10.2307/2934524 JSTOR 2934524.
• "English and the African Writer" (1965). Transition Magazine.
• "The Black Writer's Burden" (1966). Présence Africaine.
• "Editorial" (1971). Nsukkascope: pages 1–4.
• "Editorial" (1971). Nsukkascope: pages 1–5.
• "Editorial" (1971). Nsukkascope: pages 4–5
• Another Africa (1998). Anchor Books.

Source:^[10][11]

• Morning Yet on Creation Day (1975). London: Heinemann; Garden City, New York: Anchor/Doubleday ^[16]
• The Trouble With Nigeria (1983). Fourth Dimension Publishers: Enugu;^[16] 1984: Heinemann: London.
• Hopes and Impediments (1988). Heinemann: London.^[16]
• Home and Exile (2000). Oxford University Press: London.^[16][c]
• The Education of a British-Protected Child (2009). Penguin Classics: London.
• There Was A Country (2012). Penguin Classics: London.

Source:^[18]

• "There was a Young Man in Our Hall" (1951–52). Ibadan: University Herald 4 (3); page 19
• "Flying" (1973). Okike; pages 47–48
• "The Old Man and the Census" (1974). Okike; pages 41–42

• Beware, Soul Brother and Other Poems (1971). Enugu: Nwankwo-Ifejika; London: Heinemann African Writers Series, No. 120, 1962.
  • Reprinted as Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems (1973). Garden City, New York: Anchor/Doubleday^[11]

• Collected Poems (2004). Penguin Books.

Source:^[10][11]

• "In a Village Church" (1951)^[19]
• "The Old Order in Conflict with the New" (1952). University Herald.
• "Dead Men's Path" (1953)^[20]
• "Chike's School Days" (1969). Rotarian.
• "The Voter" (1965)
• "Civil Peace" (1971). Okike.^[21]
• "Sugar Baby" (1972). Okike.
• "Marriage Is a Private Affair" (1972). Published in Girls at War and Other Stories.^[22][23]
• "Vengeful Creditor" (1972). Published in Girls at War and Other Stories.

• The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories (1962). Onitsha, Nigeria: Etudo Ltd.
• Girls at War and Other Stories (1972). London: Heinemann African Writers Series, No. 100; Garden City, New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1973 (contains stories from The Sacrificial Egg)^[11]
• (Edited with C. L. Innes) African Short Stories: Twenty Stories from Across the Continent (1985). London: Heinemann African Writers Series, No. 270.^[21]
• (Edited with C. L. Innes) The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (1992). London: Heinemann African Writers Series [unnumbered].^[24]

• Works by Chinua Achebe at the Internet Archive
• Works by Chinua Achebe at Open Library