Complete Works Of Chinua Achebe

COMPLETE WORKS OF CHINUA ACHEBE

Today marks the 93rd anniversary of the late Professor Chinua Achebe. Provided here are his entire body of work, courtesy of the International Writers Association (IWA). For more information about IWA, visit www.internationalwritersassociationonline.blogspot.com. For inquiries, please email internationalwritersassociatio@gmail.com.

NOVELS

• Achebe, Chinua (1958). Things Fall Apart. London: Heinemann. New York: Astor-Honor, 1959.

• —— (1960). No Longer at Ease. London: Heinemann. New York: Obolensky, 1961.

• —— (1964). Arrow of God. London: Heinemann. New York: John Day, 1967.

• —— (1966). A Man of the People. London: Heinemann. New York: John Day, 1966.

• —— (1987). Anthills of the Savannah. London: Heinemann. New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1987

SHORT STORIES

• Achebe, Chinua (1951). "In a Village Church"

• —— (1952a). "The Old Order in Conflict with the New". University Herald. (Revised as Achebe 1962b and Achebe 1972b)

• —— (1953). "Dead Men's Path". (Republished in Achebe 1962a)

• —— (1960). "Chike's School Days". Rotarian. 96 (4): 19–20.

• —— (1962a). The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories. Onitsha: Etudo Ltd.

  • —— (1962b). "Beginning of the End". The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories. (A revision of Achebe 1952a; revised in Achebe 1972b)

• —— (1965). The Voter.

• —— (1971). "Civil Peace". Okike. 2.

• —— (1972). "Sugar Baby". Okike. 3: 8–16.

• —— (1972a). Girls at War and Other Stories. London: Heinemann. Garden City: Doubleday, 1973.

  • —— (1972b). "Marriage Is a Private Affair". Girls at War and Other Stories. (A revision of Achebe 1962b and Achebe 1972b)

  • —— (1972c). "Vengeful Creditor". Girls at War and Other Stories.

• ——; Innes, C. L., eds. (1985). African Short Stories: Twenty Stories from Across the Continent. Portsmouth: Heinemann.

• ——; Innes, C. L., eds. (1992). The Heineman Book of Contemporary African Short Stories. Portsmouth: Heinemann.

POETRY

• Achebe, Chinua (1951–1952). "There was a Young Man in Our Hall". University Herald. 4 (3): 19.

• —— (1971). Beware Soul Brother and Other Poems. Enugu: Nwankwo-Ifejika. London: Heinemann, 1972.

• —— (1973). Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems. Garden City: Doubleday.

• —— (1973). "Flying". Okike. 4: 47–48.

• —— (1974). "The Old Man and the Census". Okike. 6: 41–42.

• ——; Okafor, Dubem, eds. (1978). Don't Let Him Die: An Anthology of Memorial Poems for Christopher Okigbo. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers.

• ——; Lyons, Robert (1998). Another Africa. New York: Anchor Books.

• —— (2004). Collected Poems. London: Penguin Books.

ESSAYS, CRITICISM AND ARTICLES

• Achebe, Chinua (21 February 1951). "Philosophy". The Bug: 5.

• —— (1951). "An Argument Against the Existence of Faculties". University Herald. 4 (1): 12–13.

• —— (1951–1952). "Editorial". University Herald. 4 (3): 5.

• —— (1952). "Editorial". University Herald. 5 (1): 5.

• —— (29 November 1952). "Mr. Okafor Versus Arts Students". The Bug: 3.

• —— (29 November 1952). "Hiawatha". The Bug: 3.

• —— (January 1958). "Eminent Nigerians of the 19th Century". Radio Times. p. 3.

• —— (January 1959). "Listening in the East". Radio Times. p. 17.

• —— (6 May 1961). "Two West African Library Journals". The Service. p. 15.

• —— (23–29 July 1961). "Amos Tutuola". Radio Times. p. 2.

• —— (7 July 1962). "Writers' Conference: A Milestone in Africa's Profress". Daily Times. p. 7.

• —— (15 July 1962). "Conference of African Writers". Radio Times. p. 6.

• —— (1962). "Introduction" to King, Delphine (1962). Dreams of Twilight: A Book of Poems. Apapa: Nigerian National Press. p. 5.

• —— (December 1962). "Review of Christopher Okigbo's Heavensgate". Spear: 41.

• —— (January 1963). "Review of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo's Twenty-Four Poems". Spear: 41.

• —— (June 1963). "A Look at West African Writing". Spear: 26.

• —— (1963). "Voice of Nigeria–How it Began". Voice of Nigeria. 1 (1): 5–6.

• —— (December 1963). "Are We Men of Two Worlds?". Spear: 13.

• —— (1963). "On Janheinz Jahn and Ezekiel Mphahlele". Transition. 8: 9. doi:10.2307/2934524. JSTOR 2934524.

• —— (1964). "The Role of the Writer in a New Nation". Nigerian Libraries. 1 (3): 113–119. Nigeria Magazine. 81: 157–160.

• —— (1964). "Foreword". In Whiteley, W. H. (ed.). A Selection of African Prose. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. vii–x.

• —— (1965). "English and the African Writer". Transition. Indiana University Press (18): 27–30. doi:10.2307/2934835. ISSN 0041-1191. JSTOR 2934835.

• —— (1966). "The Black Writer's Burden". Présence Africaine. 31 (59): 135–140.

• —— (1971). "Editorial". Nsukkascope. 1: 1–4.

• —— (1971). "Editorial". Nsukkascope. 2: 1–5.

• —— (1971). "Editorial". Nsukkascope. 3: 4–5.

• —— (1962). "Introduction" to Awoonor, Kofi. This Earth, My Brother... Garden City: Doubleday. pp. vii–xii.

• —— (1962). "Introduction" to Kgositsile, Keorapetse (1975). Places and Bloodstains [Notes for Ipeleng]. Oakland: Achebe Publications. p. 7.

• —— (1975). "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness". The Chancellor's Lecture Series. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Amherst: 31–43. also in Hopes and Impediments

• —— (1975). Morning Yet on Creation Day: Essays. London: Heinemann.

• —— (1983). The Trouble With Nigeria. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers. London: Heinemann, 1984.

• —— (1988). Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays. London: Heinemann

• —— (2000). Home and Exile. New York: Oxford University Press.

• —— (2009). The Education of a British-Protected Child. London: Penguin Classics.

• —— (2012). There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra. London: Penguin Classics.

• —— (2018). Africa's Tarnished Name. London: Penguin Classics.

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• Achebe, Chinua (1966). Chike and the River. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• ——; Iroaganachi, John (1972). How the Leopard Got His Claws. Enugu: Nwamife. New York: Third World Press, 1973.

• —— (1977). The Drum. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers.

• —— (1977). The Flute. Enugu: Fourth Dimension Publishers.