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Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature | PBS Digital Studios
Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to bring a text to life. Hosted by Lindsay Ellis...
Curated Video
CELAN : Achebe father of modern African literature
CELAN : Achebe father of modern African literature
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Funeral of Achebe father of modern
CLEAN : Funeral of Achebe father of modern
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Funeral of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe
CLEAN : Funeral of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Achebes body welcomed in his home state
CLEAN : Achebes body welcomed in his home state
Curated Video
Writers struggling to make their voices heard
Lagos, 22 December, 2011
1. Close up of books, ti
lt up
2. Various of man displaying school books at stre
et stall
3. Pedestrians
on busy street
4....
1. Close up of books, ti
lt up
2. Various of man displaying school books at stre
et stall
3. Pedestrians
on busy street
4....
Curated Video
After focus on past, Chimamanda Adichie mines Nigeria's present-day chaotic life for new novel
AP Entertainment
Lagos, Nigeria, 27 April
2013
1. Handheld, Chimamanda Adichie smiles during a chart with Tolu Ogunles
i in Lagos
2. Mid, A lady handing a copy of book...
Lagos, Nigeria, 27 April
2013
1. Handheld, Chimamanda Adichie smiles during a chart with Tolu Ogunles
i in Lagos
2. Mid, A lady handing a copy of book...
Curated Video
Internationally celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe dies at 82, reax
1. Close of sleeve of Chinua Achebe's book "There Was a Country" with late author's photo on it
2. Close of p
hoto
3. Close of wo
man's face
4. Mid of Chinua Achebe's book "Things Fall Apart" i
n...
2. Close of p
hoto
3. Close of wo
man's face
4. Mid of Chinua Achebe's book "Things Fall Apart" i
n...
Curated Video
Country's north-south trains back on track
AP Television
Minna - 9 March,
2013
1. Various train at platform with
passengers
2. Passengers waving...
Minna - 9 March,
2013
1. Various train at platform with
passengers
2. Passengers waving...
Curated Video
Colleagues and students of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe react to news of his death
1. Wide shot of campus of Brown University, where Chinua Achebe was a faculty member
2. Flag at half-staff on Brown c
ampus
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Corey D.B. Walker, Chair of the Brown University...
2. Flag at half-staff on Brown c
ampus
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Corey D.B. Walker, Chair of the Brown University...
Curated Video
Hundreds at funeral of fearless writer who bowed to no political pressure
AP Entertainment
Ogidi, 23 May
2013
1. Wide of Chinua Achebe's casket being carried into funeral service in Ogid
i, Nigeria
2. Close of man looking at a funeral booklet bearing...
Ogidi, 23 May
2013
1. Wide of Chinua Achebe's casket being carried into funeral service in Ogid
i, Nigeria
2. Close of man looking at a funeral booklet bearing...
Curated Video
Hundreds at funeral of fearless writer who bowed to no political pressure
1. Wide of Chinua Achebe's casket being carried into funeral service in Ogidi, Nigeria
2. Close of man looking at a funeral booklet bearing picture of Ac
hebe
3. Various of choir...
2. Close of man looking at a funeral booklet bearing picture of Ac
hebe
3. Various of choir...
Curated Video
Nigeria prepares to lay to rest writer Chinua Achebe
AP Entertainment
Ogidi, Nigeria, 22 May
2013
1. Various of pallbearers escorting coffin of late author Chinua Achebe
to stage
2. Various of coffin of author Chinua Achebe
seen on stage
3....
Ogidi, Nigeria, 22 May
2013
1. Various of pallbearers escorting coffin of late author Chinua Achebe
to stage
2. Various of coffin of author Chinua Achebe
seen on stage
3....
Curated Video
Colleagues and students of Nigerian author Chinua Achebe react to news of his death
1. Wide shot of campus of Brown University, where Chinua Achebe was a faculty member
2. Flag at half-staff on Brown c
ampus
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Corey D.B. Walker, Chair of the Brown University...
2. Flag at half-staff on Brown c
ampus
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Corey D.B. Walker, Chair of the Brown University...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Mourning for Achebe in a country
The death of acclaimed novelist Chinua Achebe led to an outpouring of grief and tributes Friday in his native Nigeria, a country whose government he harshly criticised over the years. CLEAN : Mourning for Achebe in a country on March 22,...
Macat
An Introduction to Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa
In An Image of Africa, Chinua Achebe calls out Joseph Conrad for his racist attitudes in Heart of Darkness. Achebe contents that despite the fact that Conrad's novel is a blistering attack on Colonialism in the Congo, his characters...
Crash Course
Things Fall Apart, Part 2
"If you want to bee it well, you must not stand in one place." The second of two videos devoted to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the narrator focuses on the historical contexts and the "crossroads of culture," where traditional Igbo...
Library of Congress
Loc: Webcast: An Evening With Chinua Achebe
Through his fiction and non-fiction works, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has sought to repair the damage done to the continent of Africa and its people as a result of European colonization. This is best exemplified in his most famous...
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature 209: Things Fall Apart Part Ii
Crash Course Literature 208: If One Finger Brought Oil: Things Fall Apart Part II by Chinua Achebe is the highlighted novel that the host summarizes. Characterization, plot and symbolism is discussed in detail to give the reader a better...
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature 208: If One Finger Brought Oil: Things Fall Apart Part I
Crash Course Literature 208: If One Finger Brought Oil: Things Fall Apart I by Chinua Achebe is the highlighted novel that the host summarizes. Characterization, plot and symbolism is discussed in detail to give the reader a better...