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
JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa â€" 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
My sister teaches Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart to her young teenage pupils â€" and, as a companion text, Shakespeare's Macbeth. This may seem, to any literary mind steeped in the orthodoxy (and supremacy) of the western canon, an act of reckless
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
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,.
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