Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer who died on Thursday at 82, spent his life thinking deeply about his home country, Nigeria. After moving to the United States in 1990, he still kept a close eye on Nigeria and offered strong opinions about its

Mr. Achebe, who has died at 82, was a lifelong observer of his home country, Nigeria.

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and towering man of letters whose internationally acclaimed fiction helped to revive African literature and to rewrite the story of a continent that had long been told by Western voices, died on Thursday in Boston. He

Chinua Achebe, “Girls at War.” Detail from the draft autograph manuscript for “I speak softly, but I carry a big stick” joked Chinua Achebe when he began his talk at the Christopher Okigbo International Conference at Harvard in

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,.