Chinua Achebe facts for kids

Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
	Chinua Achebe in 2008
Born	Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe; 16 November 1930; Ogidi, Nigeria Protectorate
Died	22 March 2013 (aged 82); Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies Brown University
Nationality	Nigerian
Period	1958–present
Notable works	"The African Trilogy": Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People and Anthills of the Savannah

Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 - 22 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He was best known for writing the novel, Things Fall Apart which was first printed in 1958. It is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Achebe went to Nigeria's first university, University College. Achebe wrote his first short story at university.

Images for kids

Street in Ibadan, 2007
Lagos in 2007
A spiral stack of the 1994 Anchor Books edition of Things Fall Apart
Achebe selected the novel Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o as one of the first titles of Heinemann's African Writers Series.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst at night
Stone Row at the centre of the Bard College campus
A 1901 stamp from southern colonial Nigeria