Sunday, March 24, 2013

Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

The home state of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the “father of modern African literature” who died this week in the United States, wants him to be buried in his native community, an official said Saturday. The family of

The home state of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the “father of modern African literature” who died this week in the United States, wants him to be buried in his native community, an official said Saturday. The family of

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and critic best known for his first novel Things Fall Apart, has died in Boston following an illness. He was 82.

JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned "Mister Johnson," which portrayed Africa as a land of grinning, shrieking savages. Time magazine called it "the best novel ever written

Ifeanyi_Urigwe March 22, 2013 19:49 Achebe, the man whose works thought us all how to read and write. You explained my Igbo culture and landscape like no other. The inspiration I drew from you and other great writers from our continent inspired my work

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