(AP) Select quotes by Chinua Achebe, the pioneering African writer, government critic and advocate for African storytelling: “Okonkwo’s fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan. He was tall ...

Chinua Achebe (born 1930) is one of the foremost Nigerian novelists. His novels are primarily directed to an African audience, but their psychological insights have gained them universal acceptance. A ...

Chinua Achebe had more than the standard allotment of respect and fame for writers, including even those who in their lifetime achieve great acclaim. One of the most notable expressions of this ...

Google celebrated the birthday of prolific writer Chinua Achebe on Thursday with a Google Doodle to honor the mind who shared a new perspective on Nigerian culture and life with powerful, memorable ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Nigerian novelist of "Things Fall Apart" and other works died after an illness. By THR Staff Chinua Achebe 2009 - P 2013 Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart and other ...

AS A boy Chinua Achebe so loved reading that his friends called him “Dictionary”. He lived in the library at Government College in Umuahia, in south-eastern Nigeria, devouring Robert Louis Stevenson, ...

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 ...

On Thursday, March 21, Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, or Chinua Achebe, as he was known to book lovers worldwide, died in Boston. He was 82. He opened up a world for us to see, and once there, he gave us ...