In a novel by this author, a character who thinks he has been poisoned when he is served locally-grown coffee is overthrown in a coup that anticipated a series of real-life coups in this author's home country later the same year.
In a novel by this author, a character who thinks he has been poisoned when he is served locally-grown coffee is overthrown in a coup that anticipated a series of real-life coups in this author's home country later the same year. A woman quips under her breath about her husband's "guns that never shot," prompting him to actually fire a gun at her, in a novel by this author that was the inaugural entry of an influential series published by Heinemann. At a 1962 conference, this author controversially proclaimed that the "national literature" of his "and of many other countries" "is, or will be, written in English." This author wrote about the corrupt Minister of Culture Chief Nanga in A Man of the People, and penned the essay "An Image of Africa," in which he declared that Conrad's Heart of Darkness was racist. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Okonkwo in Things Fall Apart.
In a novel by this author, a character who thinks he has been poisoned when he is served locally-grown coffee is overthrown in a coup that anticipated a series of real-life coups in this author's home country later the same year.
Chinua Achebe [or Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe] &lt;Long Fiction&gt;