4 words week 15

Kehal Shah
December 6, 2014

1. Colonialism – Colonialism basically means the control of a certain nation to another nation. This colonization happened in Africa.

2. Chinua Achebe – Chinua Achebe was born on the date of November 16 in the year of 1930. He had died on March 21 in the year of 2013. Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist and a professor in Nigeria. The first book he ever wrote was called Things Fall Apart, and actually is the most read book in Africa. He had begun writing stories at an early age, he started making books when he was a university student. He was a truly genius man. He made a lot of great books in his time that are still read all around the world today.

3. Frida Kahlo – Frida Kahlo was a famous painter. She mostly painted mostly self portraits. She did this because she knows her own self the most. She was born on the date of July 6th in the year of 1907. She died at the age of 47 on July 13th in the year of 1954. She was born and died at the same place, in Coyoacán, Mexico City. Diego Rivera had a big influence on Frida Kahlo, they had communicated a lot during her time together. She really admired Diego Riveras art work. She had a pretty good relationship and a very good friendship.

4. Jorge Louis Borges – Jorge Louis Borges is one of the most influence figures in the 20th century literature. He was destined to be a writer at the age of nine. It’s said that most of his time in his life he used to write books. He was known to be a really shy person. He believed happiness came from inside a book. He is an innovator in the way he wrote his books. He started to become famous from writing these books during his 60’s. At this age sadly he was already blind. He was born in Argentina but his literature belonged to the whole world. He had won 46 awards for his literature. He learned so much from past authors. He had picked up so many skills from them.