Achebe
Proper noun
Meaning
Achebe (plural Achebes)
A surname from Igbo.
Anagrams
Examples
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
Chinua Achebe has quoted Schweitzer as saying: "The African is indeed my brother but my junior brother," Chinua Achebe.
But in Odia’s case he was successful in his first contacts with the older writers, Achebe and Soyinka, beyond his wildest imagination.
Chinua Achebe "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2 (7th edition) (2000), p. 2036.
In 1986, together with Chinua Achebe and JP Clark, he marched to Dodan Barracks to plead with the then military president, IBB, to spare the life of Mamman Vatsa who was accused of plotting a coup.
There’s a lot of speculation about the villain of the next movie, but audiences can be sure they probably won't see the oddball comics character Achebe or his hand puppet sidekick in the MCU.