Chinua Achebe: The True Nigerian Patriot Novelist

Chinua Achebe is worldwide known as a Black Writer of the ¿Third World Literature¿ which is quite famous for its creativity in writing style. Chinua Achebe interprets the consciousness of his people and always strives to deal with nationalism through patriotic sense of characters or protagonists of his novels. He has shown the picture of the Igbo society in general, status and dignity of black people in particular through his all novels. He has tried to make an exquisite representation of such complex consequences of the Nigerian culture and patriotism because of unpatriotic issues or things from outer as well as inner world. As a major part of Commonwealth Black Literature, Chinua Achebe has not only depicted the colonial encounter between the Africans and the British but also he prominently focused on the major aspect of patriotic feeling of the protagonists for the nation in all his novels. Achebe¿s sincere observation and critical understanding of the rhythm of his country or the life style of his people before the imperialism leads him to grapple with the theme of racial conflict and interracial relationships within the given culture.