Hopes and Impediments

Chinua Achebe

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Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Author’s Preface

1. An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

2. Impediments to Dialogue Between North and South

3. Named for Victoria, Queen of England

4. The Novelist as Teacher

5. The Writer and His Community

6. The Igbo World and Its Art

7. Colonialist Criticism

8. Thoughts on the African Novel

9. Work and Play in Tutuola’s The Palm-Wine Drinkard

10. Don’t Let Him Die: A Tribute to Christopher Okigbo

11. Kofi Awoonor as a Novelist

12. Language and the Destiny of Man

13. The Truth of Fiction

14. What Has Literature Got to Do with It?

Postscript: James Baldwin (1924–1987)

Notes

About the Author

Chinua Achebe

Hopes and Impediments