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The Education of a British-protected Child

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Education of a British-protected Child

By Chinua Achebe

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About the book

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first thirty years of his life, before Nigeria's independence in 1960, Achebe was officially defined as a 'British Protected Person'. In The Education of a British-Protected Child he gives us a vivid, ironic and delicately nuanced portrait of growing up in colonial Nig...Show more

Biography and non-fiction prose

Book details

ISBN

9780141043616

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Education of a British-protected Child

Format

Paperback

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