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A Consideration of Ethics in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart by Joanna Johnson, M.A. Bibliography Achebe, Chinua. "Teaching Things Fall Apart." Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. New York, NY: MLA, 1991 This essay by Achebe is a really useful look at the text; it might even be given to the students to read themselves as Achebe deals with the questions of universality when he details a US student's response to Okonkwo by saying "that's my father." Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Oxford: Heinemann 1958, 1986. Chametzky, Jules. Our Decentralized Literature. Amherst: U of Mass Press, 1986 Gikandi, Simon. "Chinua Achebe and the Signs of the Times" Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. . New York, NY: MLA, 1991 Obiechina, Emmanual. "Following the Author in Things Fall Apart." Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. New York, NY: MLA, 1991 Web links: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebtfa.htm Study guide to Things Fall Apart, with questions accompanying each chapter, and with a reasonable bibliography. Good for links and comment on Achebe's own perspectives in relation to the novel, particularly in his use of the English language, as opposed to an Igbo dialect. http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html Another useful study guide, worth checking out. http://www.webenglishteacher.com/achebe.html A comprehensive database of study guides and criticsm on Achebe. http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/achebe/achebeov.html Biographical and other information relating to Achebe and his work, including links to other postcolonial works and information on Africa, Nigeria etc.. The following pages are links to various and worldwide news sources online, which students can use to compare the "newsworthiness" to that site's intended audience of any given story on a particular day. It's useful for the students to consider who the intended audience is, and hence what kinds of information are included or omitted in each case (see Extension Activities and Perspective above for exercises in class or at home). http://english.aljazeera.net/English The English webpage of the Arab media service Al Jazeera. Also worth looking at is the link to its "Code of Ethics" http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4B3ABFB8-9082-4B05-B399-7BF68D4A39D6.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/ The most widely visited of all newspaper sites on the web. http://nytimes.com/ and http://www.washingtonpost.com/ The two primary US news sources online http://usatoday.com/ National newspaper site http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/ The Times of London webpage http://www.miamiherald.com/ http://www.nbc6.net/index.html Local website of NBC television channel http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/ Independent Nigerian newspaper http://www.world-newspapers.com/nigeria.html A page of links to various Nigerian news websites

A Consideration of Ethics in Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart

by Joanna Johnson, M.A.

Bibliography

Achebe, Chinua. "Teaching Things Fall Apart." Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. New York, NY: MLA, 1991
This essay by Achebe is a really useful look at the text; it might even be given to the students to read themselves as Achebe deals with the questions of universality when he details a US student's response to Okonkwo by saying "that's my father."

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Oxford: Heinemann 1958, 1986.

Chametzky, Jules. Our Decentralized Literature. Amherst: U of Mass Press, 1986

Gikandi, Simon. "Chinua Achebe and the Signs of the Times" Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. . New York, NY: MLA, 1991

Obiechina, Emmanual. "Following the Author in Things Fall Apart." Approaches to Teaching Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Ed. Bernth Lindfors. New York, NY: MLA, 1991

Web links:

http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebtfa.htm
Study guide to Things Fall Apart, with questions accompanying each chapter, and with a reasonable bibliography. Good for links and comment on Achebe's own perspectives in relation to the novel, particularly in his use of the English language, as opposed to an Igbo dialect.

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/anglophone/achebe.html
Another useful study guide, worth checking out.

http://www.webenglishteacher.com/achebe.html
A comprehensive database of study guides and criticsm on Achebe.

http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/post/achebe/achebeov.html
Biographical and other information relating to Achebe and his work, including links to other postcolonial works and information on Africa, Nigeria etc..

The following pages are links to various and worldwide news sources online, which students can use to compare the "newsworthiness" to that site's intended audience of any given story on a particular day. It's useful for the students to consider who the intended audience is, and hence what kinds of information are included or omitted in each case (see Extension Activities and Perspective above for exercises in class or at home).

http://english.aljazeera.net/English
The English webpage of the Arab media service Al Jazeera. Also worth looking at is the link to its "Code of Ethics" http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4B3ABFB8-9082-4B05-B399-7BF68D4A39D6.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The most widely visited of all newspaper sites on the web.

http://nytimes.com/ and http://www.washingtonpost.com/
The two primary US news sources online

http://usatoday.com/
National newspaper site

http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/
The Times of London webpage

http://www.miamiherald.com/

http://www.nbc6.net/index.html
Local website of NBC television channel

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/
Independent Nigerian newspaper

http://www.world-newspapers.com/nigeria.html
A page of links to various Nigerian news websites