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Title Africans in America. Part 1, The terrible transformation. Interview with Chinua Achebe, author, "Things fall apart" / [produced by WGBH]
Published Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, [1998]

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Description 1 online resource (51 min.)
Summary Chinua Achebe is interviewed about Equiano as an Igbo young man, the "Chi" in Equiano's narrative, the self-worth of the Igbo people, mourning the loss of loved ones to slavery, the power of the gun in the slave trade, European and Christian influence in destruction of African kingdoms. Achebe recites poem about Equiano
Notes Title from resource description page (viewed September 12, 2017)
Performer Interviewee: Chinua Achebe
Notes In English
Nominated 1999 NAACP Image Award, Outstanding News, Talk or Information Special
Nominated 1999 OFTA Television Award, Best Informational Special
Won 1998 Peabody Award
Subject Achebe, Chinua -- Interviews
Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797.
Achebe, Chinua.
Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797.
Igbo (African people)
Slavery -- History -- 17th century
Igbo (African people)
Slavery.
Genre/Form interviews.
History.
Interviews.
Unedited footage.
Interviews.
Unedited footage.
Interviews.
Form Streaming video
Author Bagwell, Orlando, producer
Bellows, Susan, producer, director
Achebe, Chinua, interviewee
WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), production company.