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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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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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Join us on a journey through the remarkable life of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic whose groundbreaking works, including "...
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 ...
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. Hundreds attended Achebe's funeral among the rolling hills of his eastern Nigeria home, a service that saw President Goodluck ...
Apr 13, 2021 · Great Lives. Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. Yasmin Alibhai-Brown picks Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe.
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Mar 24, 2013 · The death in a Boston hospital on March 21, 2013 of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, about whom it was said that his writings were “concerned with universal human communication across racial and cultural boundaries as a means of fostering respect for all people” came just at the start of the UN-sponsored 2013-2022 International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures.