Chinua Achebe on the positive legacies of colonialism
研究了尼日利亚作家阿契贝从1958年至2013年的作品与言论，揭示他并非简单的反殖民人物，其晚年对殖民主义积极遗产的肯定是对非洲历史与政治的长期思考的结晶，对当今非洲国家认同与建设有启示。
The late Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was a key figure in the rise and persistence of anti-colonial ideology in Africa. Yet in his final work, Achebe made a clear statement about the positive legacies of colonialism, praising the British project of state formation and nation building in the lower Niger basin. A careful study of his writings and comments from 1958 until his death in 2013 shows that Achebe was never the simple anti-colonial figure that most assumed, and that his seeming reversal could be read as the culmination of a lifetime's meditation on African history and politics. Achebe's final views have significant paradigmatic implications for the knowledge relevant to national identity formation and state building in Africa today.