Chinua Achebe!!

As we discussed in class, Chinua Achebe fought his whole life to reverse the stereotype that Western Europe put on Africans. He, a Nigerian, was taught these stereotypes in school and was even baptized with the English name, Albert. He denied that name and took the one assigned at birth to him which is actually abbreviated to Chinua. I know we've gone over all of this in class, but I thought it'd be interesting to provoke a conversation and pose the question and further discussion of who else do y'all think has been influential to society but clearly negatively affected by the toxicity of colonial power? Also, here is Achebe!