Chinua Achebe

<p><b>An imaginative narratological reading of Chinua Achebe's novels stories poetry and essays through a literary and historical framework.</b> <p/>Toyin Falola analyzes fictional and historical cartographies of Africa in Achebe's literary works to offer a critical representation of Africa's present and future. In particular he focuses on the historical valuation of a full range of the writer's works - novels including <i>Things Fall Apart</i> but also short stories poems and essays - as important materials that have contributed to the political events in Nigeria and by extension Africa. <p/>The raw creativity found in Achebe's stories and his ability to tell the Nigerian story - precolonial colonial and postcolonial - have endeared him to many including readers and those critical of him and his works. <i>Chinua Achebe: Narrating Africa in Fictions and History </i>analyzes all of the writer's works dwelling on the Nigerian political context upon which many if not all of his narratives lie. As a result it examines methodologies of narration and ideologies that allow his works to resonate with the imagination of Africa.</p>