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  2. Mar 22, 2013 · 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.

  3. Mar 22, 2013 · Chinua Achebe, who was best known for his novel Things Fall Apart, which depicts the collision between British rule and traditional Igbo culture in his native Nigeria, has died aged 82. According to local reports, Achebe died in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, where he had been living and working as a professor in recent years.

  4. Mar 22, 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 aftermath, as well...

  5. May 23, 2013 · OGIDI, Nigeria (AP) — Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria’s corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticize those he felt ruined his country. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the country’s elite came to praise him.

  6. Mar 22, 2013 · Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident, died at age 82 in Boston on Thursday after a brief illness. He lived through and helped define traumatic change in Nigeria, from independence to dictatorship to the disastrous war between Nigeria and the breakaway country of Biafra in the late 1960s.

  7. Apr 2, 2014 · Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist and author of 'Things Fall Apart,' a work that in part led to his being called the 'patriarch of the African novel.' Updated: Jan 19, 2021 12:46 PM EST...

  8. Mar 23, 2013 · NIGERIAN novelist Chinua Achebe, the revered "father of modern African literature', has died aged 82, his family says.

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