Bibliography
and Web Resources
Achebe,
Chinua. “Teaching Things Fall Apart.” Approaches
to Teaching Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Ed. Bernth
Lindfors. New York, NY: MLA, 1991
This essay by Achebe is a really useful look at the text;
it might even be given to the students to read themselves as Achebe
deals with the questions of universality when he details a US
student’s response to Okonkwo by saying “that’s
my father.”
Achebe,
Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Oxford: Heinemann 1958, 1986.
Chametzky,
Jules. Our Decentralized Literature. Amherst: U of Mass
Press, 1986
Gikandi, Simon. “Chinua Achebe and the Signs of the Times”
Approaches to Teaching Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Ed. Bernth Lindfors. . New York, NY: MLA, 1991
Obiechina,
Emmanual. “Following the Author in Things Fall Apart.”
Approaches to Teaching Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.
Ed. Bernth Lindfors. New York, NY: MLA, 1991
Web links:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebtfa.htm
Study guide to Things Fall Apart, with questions accompanying
each chapter, and with a reasonable bibliography. Good for links
and comment on Achebe’s own perspectives in relation to
the novel, particularly in his use of the English language, as
opposed to an Igbo dialect.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html
Another useful study guide, worth checking out.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/achebe.html
A comprehensive database of study guides and criticsm on Achebe.
http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/achebe/achebeov.html
Biographical and other information relating to Achebe and his
work, including links to other postcolonial works and information
on Africa, Nigeria etc..
The following pages are links to various and worldwide news sources
online, which students can use to compare the “newsworthiness”
to that site’s intended audience of any given story on a
particular day. It’s useful for the students to consider
who the intended audience is, and hence what kinds of information
are included or omitted in each case (see Extension Activities
and Perspective above for exercises in class or at home).
http://english.aljazeera.net/English
The English webpage of the Arab media service Al Jazeera. Also
worth looking at is the link to its “Code of Ethics”
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4B3ABFB8-9082-4B05-B399-7BF68D4A39D6.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The most widely visited of all newspaper sites on the web.
http://nytimes.com/
and http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The two primary US news sources online
http://usatoday.com/
National newspaper site
http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
The Times of London webpage
http://www.miamiherald.com/
http://www.nbc6.net/index.html
Local website of NBC television channel
http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/
Independent Nigerian newspaper
http://www.world-newspapers.com/nigeria.html
A page of links to various Nigerian news websites
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