Kindred Spirits: Chinua Achebe and Toni Morrison

Winner—2022 College Language Association Book Prize
Finalist—2024 African Literature Association's Best Scholarly Book Award

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe—author of Things Fall Apart, one of the towering works of twentieth-century fiction—is considered the father of modern African literature. The equally revered Toni Morrison, author of masterworks such as Beloved and one of only four Americans to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in the past half-century, acknowledged African literat...