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Chinua Achebe: Africa most beloved author
The Prominent Igbo writer, famous for his novels describing the effects of western customs and values on traditional African society. Achebe’s satire and his keen ear for spoken language have made him one of the most highly esteemed African writers in English.
Chinua Achebe was born in eastern Nigeria on November 16, 1930 Isaiah and Janet Achebe (Bucker pars.1). Isaiah Okafor Achebe was a catechist for the Church Missionary Society and his wife to traveled Eastern Nigeria evangelist before settling in ogidi, Isaiah’s ancestral Igbo village, and five years after Chinua Achebe’s birth (Bucker pars 2). Growing up in Ogidi, Achebe he began to learn English at the age of eight and had contact with both Christian and Igbo religious beliefs and customs.
In 1936 Achebe attend St. Phillip’s central. He spent about 2 week in the religious class for young child then was move up to a higher class when a reverend first notice him (Bio Achebe......

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