Chike And The River

Chike And The River

📌Chike And The River

Chike and the River is a children’s story by Chinua Achebe. It was first published in South Africa in the year 1966 by Cambridge University Press, with illustrations by Prue Theobalds, and was the first of several children’s stories Achebe wrote.

Chinua Achebe first published Chike and the River as a booklet in 1966 after his daughter started preschool in Nigeria and he noticed that most of the school texts for African children were written by Westerners, as he wanted to change the narrative, thereby encouraging more African/Nigerian writers into Nigeria’s educational system.

It is the story of a Nigerian boy called Chike who leaves his village, Umuofia, to go and stay with his uncle in the big city of Onitsha. He has a lot of friends that made him thrilled when they met and he was the only child to survive crossing the river…

This is one of the books that made me love African literature as a kid. You can never get tired reading book(s) of its kind.

Beautiful memories 💖📙