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Chinua Achebe returns with a collection of essays

November 9, 2009 By The Associated Press HENRY C. JACKSON (Associated Press Writer)

"The Education of a British-Protected Child" (Knopf, 208 pages, $24.95), by Chinua Achebe: Nigerian author Chinua Achebe's new book, his first in 20 years, is not especially new. And maybe that's part of the point.

"The Education of a British-Protected Child" is a collection of essays that all share as their backdrop the tangled, tortured history of colonial Africa. Most are also 10 or more...

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