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, worldwide, as the preëminent
Suffice it to say then that Chinua Achebe has been around all my life â€" from the Heinemann Series poster of a smiling, serious, bemused, pipe smoking Achebe that was framed in our family sitting room, to cases of mistaken
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, essayist and poet who largely invented modern African fiction and shaped generations of writers worldwide, foremost with his groundbreaking book “Things Fall Apart,†died March 21 in Boston. He was 82. The death
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
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