https://grishambookshelf.exhibits.depaul.press/files/original/2ad14c9c32b6ecfbf1ac3a3e4eab69c9.jpg 1bdbc04783653097478c47f2f15a8638 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record detail images Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource There Was a Country Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Chinua Achebe Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived New York: The Penguin Press, 2012. Description An account of the resource Chinua Achebe, famed author of Things Fall Apart, is recognized as a key author of postcolonial fiction. In his memoir There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra, Achebe addresses his personal experiences living in Nigeria during decolonization. For Achebe, a writer adamantly committed to utilizing literature as a way to engage socio-political currents and serve as historical testimony, There Was a Country provides his own historical record of colonial and postcolonial Nigeria. What Achebe highlights in his autobiographical exploration of Nigeria’s history is the tenuous connection between the colonized and the colonizer and the necessity of knowing history.