Highly Recommended Reading:

• L. S. Stavrianos, from "Africa Enters the Third World"
• Bill Moyers, "The Fabric of Memory" (YouTube--late 1980s PBS interview with Chinua Achebe)

Recommended Reading:

• Ngugi wa Thiong'o, "The Language of African Literature"
• The New York Public Library's "Africana Age" exhibit includes essays on the Colonization of Africa, African Resistance to Colonial Rule, and African Decolonization
• Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studiess: abrogration, appropriation, colonial patronage, comprador, native, savage/civilized, transculturation

Internet Resources (recommended):

• Encyclopedia Britannica World Atlas | CIA World Factbook | Wikipedia
• Nigeria: Authors Overview (Postcolonial Web, National U of Singapore)

Achebe & Things Fall Apart:

• Biography: Postcolonial Web | Wikipedia
• Interviews and Features: Paris Review | The New Yorker | CNN | Library of Congress | The British Library's "African Writers Club" (enter "Achebe" in the Search box) | The Roland Collection (interview with Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah)
• Tributes/Festschrifts: Chinua Achebe at Seventy (a special "homage" section of Research in African Literatures 32:3 [Fall 2001] — see esp. Simon Gikandi's "Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Culture") | PMLA 29.2 (March 2014): scroll down to "Chinua Achebe: A Tribute," pp. 237-256
• Study Guide for Things Fall Apart by Paul Brians, WSU

Contemporary Nigeria:

• Mallika Rao, "Telling a Different Story About Africa" (The New Yorker 16 April 2016): Nana Mensah and the web series An African City
• "The Race to Share in Nigeria's Oil Bounty" (Steve Inskeep; originally aired on NPR's Morning Edition, August 23, 2005, as part of the series "Oil Money Divides Nigeria") and Sasha Chavkin, "Shell Games in Nigeria" (The Nation 4 January 2010)