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One of the founders of contemporary African (anglophone) literature, Chinua Achebe, is 79 today…
He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958) - and for creating the Conrad controversy with his 1975 lecture, An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness,” and its criticism of Joseph Conrad as “a bloody racist”. Interviewed on National Public Radio with Robert Siegel, in October, 2009, Achebe remains consistent, although tempering this criticism in a discussion titled ‘Heart of Darkness is innappropriate’: “Conrad was a seductive writer. He could pull his reader into the fray. And if it were not for what he said about me and my people, I would probably be thinking only of that seduction.”
Glorious early photo of Achebe in 1960 (Lagos, Nigeria) by Eliot Elisofon, LIFE
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