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Mar 22, 2013 · The Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82. Here we celebrate his life with portraits and quotations from his work
Mar 22, 2013 · 22 March 2013. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who has died aged 82, was revered throughout the world for his depiction of life in Africa. He wrote about the effects of colonialism and its ...
Mar 22, 2013 · March 22, 2013, 5:11 AM PDT. By Eun Kyung Kim, TODAY contributor. Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist and poet whose 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart" addressed the effects of colonialism on African ...
Chinua Achebe, who died last year, left more than books as his legacy. He inspired some of today’s most talented writers, argues Jane Ciabattari. When the legendary Nigerian novelist Chinua ...
May 23, 2013 · Images of the funeral of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March in the US and whose body has now returned to his homeland.
Mar 22, 2013 · NEW YORK (AP) — The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond," Chinua Achebe wrote in "Things Fall Apart." Africans, the Nigerian author announced more than 50 years ago, had their own history, their own celebrities and reputations. Centuries of being defined by the West were ...
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Mar 22, 2013 · By Jonathan Kandell. March 22, 2013. Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and towering man of letters whose internationally acclaimed fiction helped to revive African literature and to rewrite the ...
