Chinua Achebe, who died in Boston today at the age of eighty-two, was a few weeks shy of thirty years old when Nigeria was granted independence from the British Empire, on October 1, 1960, and he was already acclaimed,.
Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist seen by millions as the father of African literature, has died at the age of 82. African papers were reporting his death following an illness and hospital stay in Boston this morning, and both
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at 82. Now the father of modern African literature will never receive the Nobel Prize that so readers and critics around the world believed he deserved. Achebe's writing triggered a revolution in fiction which
Tributes are pouring in from around the world following the passing on of perhaps Nigeria's greatest ever writer. Chinualumogu Albert Achebe died last night, aged 82. Why was Chinua Achebe so readable and Wole Soyinka almost inscrutable? The former
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at the age 82. For Nigerians, Achebe was a national treasure. He was the first African writer to attract international acclaim, and an outspoken leader with far-reaching influence on both
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