Instructional Video8:51
PBS

Food & Fiction: Memorable Meals in Literature | PBS Digital Studios

12th - Higher Ed
Food varies wildly from place to place and from culture to culture; since humans are such sensory creatures, using words to evoke the experience of eating is an excellent way to bring a text to life. Hosted by Lindsay Ellis...
Instructional Video
Macat

An Introduction to Chinua Achebe's An Image of Africa

9th - 12th
In An Image of Africa, Chinua Achebe calls out Joseph Conrad for his racist attitudes in Heart of Darkness. Achebe contents that despite the fact that Conrad's novel is a blistering attack on Colonialism in the Congo, his characters...
Instructional Video9:30
Crash Course

Things Fall Apart, Part 2

9th - 12th
"If you want to bee it well, you must not stand in one place." The second of two videos devoted to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, the narrator focuses on the historical contexts and the "crossroads of culture," where traditional Igbo...
Instructional Video
Library of Congress

Loc: Webcast: An Evening With Chinua Achebe

9th - 10th
Through his fiction and non-fiction works, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has sought to repair the damage done to the continent of Africa and its people as a result of European colonization. This is best exemplified in his most famous...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Literature 209: Things Fall Apart Part Ii

9th - 10th
Crash Course Literature 208: If One Finger Brought Oil: Things Fall Apart Part II by Chinua Achebe is the highlighted novel that the host summarizes. Characterization, plot and symbolism is discussed in detail to give the reader a better...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Literature 208: If One Finger Brought Oil: Things Fall Apart Part I

9th - 10th
Crash Course Literature 208: If One Finger Brought Oil: Things Fall Apart I by Chinua Achebe is the highlighted novel that the host summarizes. Characterization, plot and symbolism is discussed in detail to give the reader a better...