Classic Appreciation: On the Achievement of Chinua Achebe, novelist, poet, professor and critic - by Kwame Anthony Appiah, philosopher and author  | Writers & Books | Scoop.it
From www.nybooks.com - August 24, 2017 2:49 AM
Chinua Achebe found a way to represent for a global Anglophone audience the diction of his Igbo homeland, allowing readers of English elsewhere to experience a particular relationship to language and the world in a way that made it seem quite natural—transparent, one might almost say. A measure of his achievement is that Achebe found an African voice in English that is so natural its artifice eludes us.