IF YOU WANT TO LEARN MORE
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York, Anchor, 1994.
Chinua Achebe is one of Nigeria's greatest living writers. In this book, first published in 1958 and now considered a modern classic, he tells of Christian missionaries among the Ibo people and the clash of cultures that has long troubled Nigeria.

Ohaeto, Ezenwa. Chinua Achebe: A Biography. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1997.
A biography by a former student of Achebe's that sets the life of Achebe against the context of modern Nigeria. Achebe has struggled to uphold human rights in his country, and this has brought him into conflict with the government.

Okere, Theophilus. Identity and Change. Washington D.C., The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1996.
This book provides a description of Nigerian culture that emphasizes the unity of the ancient and the modern.

Okri, Ben. The Famished Road. New York, Anchor, 1993.
This novel, which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1991, is by a Nigerian-born writer and tells of life in a ghetto on the eve of independence from Britain.

Rupert, Janet E. The African Mask. New York, Clarion Books, 1994.
A book for young adults that tells the story of a 12-year-old Yoruba girl in the 11th century.

Web sites

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