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Nigerian author Chinua Achebe is considered one of the world’s greatest storytellers. Achebe’s first book, Things Fall Apart, was released in 1958 and is considered to be one of Africa’s finest pieces ...

Achebe was a moral and literary model for countless Africans and a profound influence on such American-based writers as Ha Jin, Junot Diaz and Morrison, who once called Achebe's work an 'education' ...

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Things Fall Apart (1958) has been called “the finest novel written about life in Nigeria at the end of the 19th century” and ...

“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act ...

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 ...