When I think about Chinua Achebe, who died Thursday in Boston at age 82, I remember an event, five years ago, at Manhattan’s Town Hall. The occasion was a commemoration, sponsored by PEN ...

‘There Was A Country’ By Chinua Achebe. 352 p. The Penguin Press. $27.95. Like much of Achebe's other work, this book about the progress of war and the presence of violence has a universal ...

Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at 82. Now the father of modern African literature will never receive the Nobel Prize that so readers and critics around the world believed he deserved.

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The death of Chinua Achebe represents more than the loss of a great writer. Achebe was perhaps the first to give voice with elegance, a poetic prose, and startling insight to the other side of the ...

Chinua Achebe, the prominent Nigerian novelist and essayist who died on Thursday, said in a 1994 interview with the Paris Review, "There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their ...

The death of Chinua Achebe represents more than the loss of a great writer. Achebe was perhaps the first to give voice with elegance, a poetic prose, and startling insight to the other side of the ...