Profile | Chinua Achebe

Based on Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 

After a car crash that left Achebe needing medical care available only in the West. Here he has granted a rare and profound interview to celebrated author Caryl Phillips, discussing his new book Home and Exile.

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  • Type: Analysis
  • Channel: BBC Four
  • Duration: 28'34''
  • Broadcast date: 2003
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Other Archive resources
Things Fall Apart | BBC World Service | 2016

Witness History | Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

In 1958 Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe published his first book, it would revolutionise African culture and was the beginning of a whole new genre of world literature.
Things Fall Apart | BBC Radio 4 | 2008

Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament

Zina Saro-Wiwa explores the legacy of Africa's first great post-colonial novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.