Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe redefined the way readers understood Africa in his first novel, Things Fall Apart. Published in 1958, that book told the story of the English coming to Africa — from ...

The world-famous Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died. Annalisa Quinn reflects on the legacy of Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe, the prominent Nigerian novelist and essayist who died ...

Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe has died. The 82-year-old was best known for his gorgeously written historical novel that served as an indictment of colonialism, “Things Fall Apart.” Published in ...

"One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words," thinks the colonial district commissioner to himself in the final chapter of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart ...

How would Africa look today if it had never been colonised? What would our cultures look like? What would we believe about ourselves? And how different would our understanding of the people who ...

The acclaimed trilogy will be adapted for global television audiences. "The series will portray decades of wrenching societal change- from the end of the 19th century in 'Things Fall Apart', through ...

Terri Ochiagha is a deeply perceptive literary scholar who has an exceptional talent for explicatory prose. Her voice is clear and lucid. Unquestionably, her body of work so far is immensely ...

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Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern Africa with "Things Fall Apart," has died. He was 82. Achebe's death was ...