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In his new collection of essays, The Education of a British-Protected Child, Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe recounts the story of a kite flown high by a small white boy. It’s a glorious summer day, with the beauty of houses and gardens surrounding the boy. The kite soars so high, it catches on an airplane, and is carried far, far away to an African village.

The Education of a British-Protected Child is the first book by Chinua Achebe to appear in a decade, but more than anything it suggests the author has not moved on into the new millennium. Almost all the pieces here are at least a decade old, and several date to the 1980s. The three short more recent pieces are also retrospective -- 'My.

The Education of a British-Protected Child is a conversation that continues from where Chinua Achebe’s The Trouble with Nigeria (1983) stops (see Achebe’s remarks in this regard, p.138-9).

Chinua Achebe Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 2009 The Education of a British-Protected Child The title I have chosen for these reflections may not be immediately clear to everybody and, although already rather long, may call for a little explanation or elaboration from me. But before I get to that, I want to deal with something which gives me.

Other collections of essays include Zadie Smith, Changing My Mind and Arundhati Roy, Listening to Grasshoppers. You can read more book reviews or buy The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe at Amazon.co.uk. You can read more book reviews or buy The Education of a British-Protected Child by Chinua Achebe at Amazon.com. Comments.

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Get this from a library! The education of a British-protected child: essays. (Chinua Achebe) -- A volume of seventeen essays explores various aspects of the author's life, including his childhood in colonial Nigeria, encounters with the African-American diaspora, his family life, and the.

Education of a British Protected Child Essays by Chinua Achebe available in Hardcover on Powells.com, also read synopsis and reviews. From the celebrated author of Things Fall Apart and winner of the Man Booker International Prize.

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.

He is also the author of Anthills of the Savannah, A Man of the People, Girls at War and Other Stories, Home and Exile, Hopes and Impediments, Collected Poems, The Education of a British-Protected Child, Chike and the River, and There Was a Country. He was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at.