Despite what your high school English teachers may have led you to believe, he's more than just "Things Fall Apart." He's a poet and an essayist, a national hero and a Man Booker Prize winner. More ...

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Renowned Nigerian writer and Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe died the evening of March 21, multiple national news sources reported. He was 82. Achebe died in Boston, according to a ...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe redefined the way readers understood Africa in his first novel, Things Fall Apart. Published in 1958, that book told the story of the English coming to Africa — from ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. From the publication of his first novel, "Things Fall Apart", ...

Try this short quiz on Africa’s vibrant literary scene and its globally popular authors. By J. D. Biersdorfer Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the ...

The acclaimed trilogy will be adapted for global television audiences. "The series will portray decades of wrenching societal change- from the end of the 19th century in 'Things Fall Apart', through ...

The rumoured death of foremost writer of classic novel, Things Fall Apart, Prof. Chinua Achebe, has been described as “untrue.” Achebe’s son, Chidi, made the revelation to Vanguard, Thursday, via an e ...

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” The above is a poem by William Butler ...

Chinua Achebe, the celebrated novelist, essayist and prophet, has published a jewel of analysis of African ills that is a ’must read’ for those concerned about Nigeria. In only a few hundred words he ...

One of the world’s most celebrated writers, Prof. Chinua Achebe is dead. Achebe, the author of the classic novel “Things Fall Apart,” died in an undisclosed hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United ...

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