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The acclaimed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at the age of eighty-two. A statement released on behalf of his family described Chinua Achebe as one o...
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May 11, 2009 · Through his fiction and non-fiction works, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has sought to repair the damage done to the continent of Africa and its people as a ...
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In January the this year Prof. Chinua Achebe was invited to return to his homeland for the first time in a decade to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of hi...
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Mar 23, 2013 · "A great tree has fallen." -Corey D.B. Walker, chair of Africana studiesChinua Achebe, the David and Marianna Fisher University professor and professor of Af...
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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 ...
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 · 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 ...
