This is FRESH AIR. We're going to listen to an interview with the acclaimed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who became one of the most widely read and influential African writers. He died Thursday at ...

The world-famous Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died. Annalisa Quinn reflects on the legacy of Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe, the prominent Nigerian novelist and essayist who died ...

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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The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe -- Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor -- Eternal sacred order versus ...

Some in the literary world are pushing for the late Chinua Achebe to be awarded a posthumous Nobel Prize for literature, and fellow Nigerian author Wole Soyinka has had enough, The Guardian reports.

Today’s Google doodle marks what would have been the 87th birthday of the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. Best known for his novel “Things Fall Apart,” Achebe began writing during the 1950s, building ...

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Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the exquisite bedlam of Lagos, a megacity of extremes. Here, he defines the books that make sense of the chaos. By Stephen ...