Currently, I’m reading a series of lectures by Chinua Achebe called Home and Exile.  The first lecture, “My Home Under Imperial Fire,” is about the legacy of colonialism and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on “African Literature.”  He shows how certain texts, which are often held up as shining examples of books about Africa, are mired by an ugly legacy.  He goes into an anecdote about his experience with a book called Mister Johnson’s Countrymen which becomes an awakening for him […]

Categories: Thought • Tags: Chinua Achebe, Colonialism, Criticism, Literature, Nigeria