How long does it take to read Home and Exile?
Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe takes about 2 hours 7 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 7 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2000. 115 pages, about 31,625 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 7 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 19 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
More personally revealing than anything Achebe has written, Home and Exile-the great Nigerian novelist's first book in more than ten years-is a major statement on the importance of stories as real sources of power, especially for those whose stories have traditionally been told by outsiders. In three elegant essays, Achebe seeks to rescue African culture from narratives written about it by Europeans. Looking through the prism of his experiences as a student in English schools in Nigeria, he provides devastating examples of European cultural imperialism. He examines the impact that his novel Things Fall Apart had on efforts to reclaim Africa's story. And he argues for the importance of writing and living the African experience because, he believes, Africa needs stories told by Africans.
Subjects: Exiles, Western influences, Nigerian Authors, Nigerians, Civilization, Nigerian Novelists
