CHINUA ACHEBE (1930-2013)

AFRICAS VOICE

Borned in Nigeria in 1930 He is a key author in the development of African literature Had a critic style aginst colonialism and west imposition over Africa

ACADEMIC
Graduated in English from the University of Ibadan , Nigeria. He was professor at Brown University , Boston Received the Nigerian National Merit Award

LAST YEARS
In 1990, after a crash he became paralyzed of his left side Died on 21 March of 2013 at 82 years.

Things fall apart

POETRY
A Mother In A Refugee Camp No Madonna and Child could touch Her tenderness for a son She soon would have to forget. . . . The air was heavy with odors of diarrhea, Of unwashed children with washed-out ribs And dried-up bottoms waddling in labored steps Behind blown-empty bellies. Other mothers there Had long ceased to care, but not this one: She held a ghost-smile between her teeth, And in her eyes the memory Of a mothers pride. . . . She had bathed him And rubbed him down with bare palms. She took from their bundle of possessions A broken comb and combed The rust-colored hair left on his skull And thenhumming in her eyesbegan carefully to part it. In their former life this was perhaps A little daily act of no consequence Before his breakfast and school; now she did it Like putting flowers on a tiny grave.

My weapon is literature -Chinua Achebe

REFERENCES
http://0www.britannica.com.millenium.itesm.mx/EBc hecked/topic/3493/Chinua-Achebe http://brown.edu/Departments/Africana_Studi es/people/achebe_chinua.html