Friday, 12 October 2012
Heinemann had embarked on publishing selected book from the famous Africa writers into classic with the major objective of making them available to both new readers and classic lovers.
Among books which had already been published into cl;classic included Prof Ngugi Devil on the Cross, Prof Chunua Achebe Arrow of God, Mariam Ba So longer a letter among others
The selected books are among the early books publsihed by Africa writers who mostly used there pen to fight colonial leadership at the same time preserving African traditional value
Among the early writers Chinua Achebe published his book Things Fall Apart in 50s and since then he had published dozen of books which had already been translated into numerous languages on the World
It is believed that Achebes books Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God and No longer at Easy are books in which African proverbs had been quoited than any other African writers of our time
What is very interesting is that what Achebe. was trying to write about Nigeria especially traditions value and corruptions are what was and is still happening or over Africa region which vividly proved that not only Achebe was doing serious research but also producing prophetic books on Africa way of life.
The same goes to Kenya father of books Prof Ngugi is is Chinua Achebe students who he first meet in Kampala Uganda during the Pan Africa writers meeting and that time Achebe was editor at Heinmann
Since then Ngugi who teachers abroad had published numerous books which included the Grain og Wheat, River Between among others Ngugi also writes and Publish in Kikuyu.
Both Ngugi and Achebe ones worked for either broadcasting Houise and News papers except Mariama BA who was a School teacher'
Thanks for Herinmann for coming out with such wonderful project because it is remainder to the upcoming writers the important of well researched kind of writing in the modern Society
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