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Nwokeoma
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ACHEBE TAKES GERMAN PEACE PRIZE, SLAMS WEST

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One of Africa’s most revered novelists collected the German book trade’s prestigious Peace Prize yesterday and launched a stinging attack on the way Africans are depicted in Western literature. BiafraNigerian author Chinua Achebe said he had attempted to counter the dehumanizing images of Africans in the works of authors such as Joseph Conrad and Ernest Hemingway by giving the African people a “home” in his writing. “These impossible characters, ugly, hardly recognizable as people, were representatives of the people in my village, the people I knew? The answer was a clear no,” he said in accepting the award at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

When will the West cut through the chase and award him the Nobel Prize for Literature?

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