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Chinua Achebe's 1958 debut novel Things Fall Apart has sold 10 million copies worldwide and been translated into 50 languages. The book provided a unique picture of late 19th century Igbo culture in ...

Nigerian-born Chinua Achebe, considered the father of modern African writing, has won the second Man Booker International Prize worth 60,000 pounds, edging out, among others, Indian-born Salman ...

Messengers: A two-part special that visits one of the world's greatest authors Chinua Achebe at his upstate New York home in the wake of the 50th year celebration of his bestseller novel 'Things Fall ...

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'Nigeria is once again on the brink of a precipice. We have to face up to our responsibilities before it is too late' In January 1966 Chinua Achebe attended a meeting of the newly founded Society of ...

“I think story telling was my life…I was curious…attempting to remember the first one is like attempting to remember the day we were born…I was absolutely fascinated by books and I had a school that ...

Editor’s Note: Tolu Ogunlesi is a freelance journalist in Lagos, Nigeria. In 2009 he was awarded the Arts and Culture prize in the annual CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards. Chinua Achebe died, ...

Nigeria's president hails him as a "globally acclaimed writer, scholar, cultural icon, nationalist" South Africa's Jacob Zuma mourns the loss of a "colossus of African writing" Nigerian author Chinua ...