When Chinua Achebe went to Scandinavia in 1988
It is striking that that the topics his hosts discussed with Achebe in those days are still animating us.
3 Articles by:
Raoul J. Granqvist
Raoul Granqvist is Professor Emeritus in Language Studies at Umeå University in Sweden.
Elisofon’s Africa
The photographer, Elliot Elisofon’s ‘choice’ of what to see and how was embedded in a visual colonial archive. It was never a unique choice.
The complicated history of a famous photograph
The story of how the most famous portrait of a young Chinua Achebe was taken at his house in Enugu, Nigeria in 1959 by American photographer, Eliot Elisofon.