Chinua Achebe
Speakers in the Video
Anthony Appiah
Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University
- David DamroschProfessor of Comparative Literature, Harvard UniversityDr. Damrosch is professor of comparative literature at Harvard University and the author of several books, including What Is World Literature?
Simon Gikandi
Professor of English, Princeton University
Suheir Hammad
Poet
Francesca Harper
Choreographer
- Chuck MikeDr. Mike is associate professor of theater at the University of Richmond in Virginia. He is also a theater director and has worked with British playwright Biyi Bandele. Dr. Mike directed a stage production of Things Fall Apart in London. A disciple of author and playwright Wole Soyinka, he believes that theater can bring about social change.
Theater Director and Associate Professor of Theater, University of Richmond
Osonye Tess Onwueme
Playwright and Professor of Cultural Diversity and English, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- Faith SalieActress, journalist, commentator for CBS's Sunday Morning, and a regular on the NPR game show, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, Ms. Salie is a former radio show host and executive producer of Fair Game with Faith Salie. She is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar.
Cultural Critic
- Kurt ThometzMr. Thometz owns Jumel Books in Harlem, and is a collector and aficionado of African literature. He is the author of Life Turns Man Up and Down, an anthology of Onitsha Market Literature, a Nigerian phenomenon of the 1960s. Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, has used this work in his own teaching.
Bookseller and Collector
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It is one of those books which you don't leave a grip.The story of tribes and their living is narrated beautifully and invasion of Christianity on tribal beliefs is written in a heart rendering manner.If you want to read a book that is not regular,you should definitely pick this up.
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