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In a myth told by the Igbo people of Nigeria, men once decided to send a messenger to ask Chuku, the supreme god, if the dead could be permitted to come back to life. As their messenger, they chose a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Acclaimed Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who wrote "Things Fall Apart," died Thursday in Boston after a brief illness. He was 82. Achebe, often called the father of African literature, was best known ...

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer who was one of Africa's most widely read novelists and one of the continent's towering men of letters, has died after a brief illness, his publisher and agent said ...

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 ...

My readings of the two books—the subject of this write-up—happened to be on two momentous occasions, set two decades apart in ...

Chinua Achebe’s first and most famous novel, Things Fall Apart, almost wasn’t published at all. The Nigerian author sent his only, handwritten manuscript to an English typing agency in the late 1950s, ...

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ALL ARTS Vault: Chinua Achebe offers an engaging 1964 conversation with the author. Take a peek into the archive and explore this engaging 1964 conversation with Nigerian author Chinua Achebe; his ...

Captain Elechi Amadi is the author of the widely acclaimed The Concubine among other literary works, a former Commissioner for Land and Housing, former Commissioner for Education and currently ...