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  1. Sep 29, 2024 · Idris Elba is set to star and executive produce a TV series adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s literary classic, Things Fall Apart. Elba has been slated to play the novel’s protagonist, Okonkwo, a ...

  2. Chinua Achebe (/ ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ / ⓘ; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), occupies a pivotal place in African literature and ...

  3. Things Fall Apart is the first novel by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It portrays the life of Okonkwo, a traditional influential leader of the fictional Igbo clan, Umuofia. He is a feared warrior and a local wrestling champion who opposed the European colonialism and Christian missionaries. An early modernist novel, it received positive ...

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  4. Jul 24, 2021 · In time for the 50th anniversary of the film adaptation of Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, icon of postcolonial literature, more than 2000 unpublished film stills, various production papers, correspondences, as well as a film print of the production from 1970 has been found in the estate of the Berlin film­maker Jason Pohland (1934-2014).

  5. 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 ...

  6. Mar 22, 2013 · A look back at the life of Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who has died aged 82 and was revered throughout the world for his depiction of life in Africa.

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  8. Apr 2, 2014 · QUOTES. Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he ...

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