{"id":3227,"date":"2013-03-22T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T15:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/drp\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2016-07-19T13:22:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-19T18:22:02","slug":"remembering-chinua-achebe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2013\/03\/22\/remembering-chinua-achebe\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Chinua Achebe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinua Achebe (1930\u20132013) never came to Iowa City, so our connection with him in our collection is slight. However, since he recently died and given the importance of his work, I wanted to highlight a few items in our digital collections.<\/p>\n

\"Members_of_Black_Writers_panel_chatting_Countee_Cullen_Branch_of_New_York_Public_Library_New_York_NY_May_1963\"<\/a>
Pictured are: (from left) Louis Lomax, Bill Kelley, Esther Walls, John Killens, Chinua Achebe, Leroi Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Esther Walls papers include 3 pictures of him at the Countee Cullen Branch of the New York Public Library in May, 1963. He was part of a black writers panel, moderated by Esther Walls. Other panelists were Louis Lomax<\/a>, Bill Kelley<\/a>, John Killens<\/a> and Leroi Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Role_of_the_Black_Writer\"<\/a>
Esther Walls moderating a panel of black writers. Pictured are: (from left) Bill Kelley, Chinua Achebe, Louis Lomax, Esther Walls, Leroi Jones (obscured), John Killens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We of course also have many books written by him<\/a>; reading his works is the best way to remember his legacy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinua Achebe (1930\u20132013) never came to Iowa City, so our connection with him in our collection is slight. However, since he recently died and given the importance of his work, I wanted to highlight a few items in our digital collections. The Esther Walls papers include 3 pictures of him at the Countee Cullen BranchContinue reading “Remembering Chinua Achebe”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4824,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}