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| Chinua Achebe | |
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Chinua Achebe in 2008
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| 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 |
| Ethnicity | Igbo |
| Period | 1958–present |
| Notable work(s) | "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.
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Street in Ibadan, 2007
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Lagos in 2007
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A spiral stack of the 1994 Anchor Books edition of Things Fall Apart
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Achebe selected the novel Weep Not, Child by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o as one of the first titles of Heinemann's African Writers Series.
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The University of Massachusetts Amherst at night
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Stone Row at the centre of the Bard College campus
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A 1901 stamp from southern colonial Nigeria