Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern Africa with Things Fall Apart, died at the age of 82, on March 22, 2013. Chinua ...
Is it merely my imagination that we have recently lost more well-known people than is usually the case? Even as we drove back from our funeral to Kampala from Kabale, news reached us Chinua Achebe, ...
Through glass window paneUp a modern office blockI saw, two floors below, on wide-juttingConcrete canopy a mango seedling newly sproutedPurple, two-leafed, standing on its burstBlack yolk. It waved ...
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 ...
When the Ugandan poet, Okot p’Bitek died in 1982, we seized the opportunity of the gathering writers in Ile-Ife, where he had spent a sabbatical year a few years before, to organise a little programme ...
NEW YORK - The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond," Chinua Achebe wrote in ...
Pioneers of a new frontier -- The magical years -- A primary exposure -- Leaving home -- The formative years at Umuahia and Ibadan -- Meeting Christie and her family -- Discovering Things fall apart - ...
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