A Study Guide for Chinua Achebe's "The Voter"
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The Voter
Chinua Achebe
1965
Introduction
Chinua Achebe's The Voter
is a satiric short story set in the village of Umuofia in Nigeria during the early years of the country's independence. The village is rural, without electricity or running water, and the political changes occurring in the big cities are only partially understood by the villagers. The story focuses on Roof, a corrupt employee of a corrupt government official, as election day approaches and the political parties scramble to buy votes for their candidates. Chief the Honourable Marcus Ibe, Minister of Culture, comes from Umuofia, but the locals' pride in their native son's success is tempered with regret that they gave him their votes for free in the previous election.
The Voter
first appeared in the Nigerian literary journal Black Orpheus in June 1965, as national election campaigns were under way and Nigeria was heading for civil war. The story was republished in Achebe's first full-length collection of short stories, Girls at War and Other Stories (1972) and later was included in The Heinemann Book of Contemporary African Short Stories (1992). Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart (1958) was the first book in Heinemann's African Writers Series, which was steered by Achebe as advisory editor; Girls at War was the hundredth book in the series, and the last one issued under Achebe's editorship.
Author Biography
Chinua Achebe was born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe in Ogidi, Nigerian Protectorate, on November 16, 1930. The town's primary language and culture was Igbo, and Achebe's parents exposed their children to both Igbo and English arts and literature. He did well in school from the beginning and won a college scholarship to study medicine, but he changed his major to English literature. He was interested in languages and religions, and he began to write stories. In 1948, he changed his first name from the British-sounding Albert
to Chinua,
a form of his Igbo middle name. Achebe graduated in 1953 and began a behind-the-scenes job in radio. In 1958, his first novel, Things Fall Apart, was published. That novel, still in print, has been translated into more than forty languages and is considered the most well-known and most influential work of modern African literature.
In 1960, Nigeria gained independence from Great Britain, and a new period of political and economic turmoil—and a flowering of Nigerian literature and art—began. That same year, Achebe published his second novel, No Longer at Ease, and dedicated it to Christiana Chinwe Okol,