AWS 3170 Chinua Achebe and the African Narrative

This course is an in-depth study of Chinua Achebe’s oeuvre, placed in the contexts of African oral prose narratives, modern literary theories and Achebe scholarship. The course also covers Achebe’s fictional and non-fictional responses to the literature of empire and his critical essays on African/lgbo art, culture, politics, oratory and colonialist criticism, which, together, inform the aesthetics of his work.
Credits: 3.0