LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe, widely seen as a grandfather ... “The Trouble With Nigeria”, which painted a bleak picture of his native country, but also ...

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist and poet whose 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart" addressed the effects of colonialism on African society, has died. He was 82. Achebe died following a brief ...

Achebe paints a picture of village life that is vivid, poignant but also brutal. With no judgment or steer as a narrator, he succeeds in presenting a community that is robust, with strong mores ...

27Things Fall Apart%27 is among the most read books in African literature Chinua Achebe taught in the U.S. for many decades One of the towering figures of world literature is gone. Nigerian writer ...

Here’s what you need to know about Chinua Achebe’s debut novel. Achebe told The Paris Review in 1994 that Yeats was one of his favorite poets, but that he “wouldn’t make too much of that ...

The lineage of Igbo poets and writers - Christopher Okigbo, Chinua Achebe, Flora Nwapa and Catherine Acholonu, among others - has provided a framework for navigating both the historical and the ...

Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe was born on November 16, 1930, and passed on March 21, 2013. He was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who was regarded as a central figure of modern African ...