Prominent Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of his first seminal work, “Things Fall Apart” yesterday evening with readings from his poetry and a discussion of his ...

I dare say the great African writer; Chinua Achebe, has written certain works which tend to be overshadowed by his greater works. I will call these his minor works. Achebe’s major works are clearly ...

On May 30, 1967, Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu declared that the Republic of Biafra, a small region of southeastern Nigeria, had seceded. The young African nation, which had achieved independence from Great ...

Achebe's books are elegant, musical, and — most significantly — they'll live on as African rebuttals to the colonial narratives of Joseph Conrad and other European writers. Achebe's influence is most ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern Africa with "Things Fall Apart" and continued for decades to ...

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, his publisher and agent said in London on Friday. He ...

The author of "Things Fall Apart," Chinua Achebe is one of the most widely read African authors. Wikimedia Commons In a 1994 interview with the Paris Review, Chinua Achebe, the world’s most ...

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 ...