Despite what your high school English teachers may have led you to believe, he's more than just "Things Fall Apart." He's a poet and an essayist, a national hero and a Man Booker Prize winner. More ...

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who wrote the popular novel “Things Fall Apart,” died at 82. Achebe died following a brief illness, said his agent, Andrew Wylie. Achebe dedicated his literary career ...

This is FRESH AIR. We're going to listen to an interview with the acclaimed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who became one of the most widely read and influential African writers. He died Thursday at ...

I met Chinua Achebe for the first time when I was in high school, but I knew him through his works long before that. "Uncle," as my siblings and I were told to call him, came to our house in ...

On Thursday, March 21, Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, or Chinua Achebe, as he was known to book lovers worldwide, died in Boston. He was 82. He opened up a world for us to see, and once there, he gave us ...

The Nigerian novelist of "Things Fall Apart" and other works died after an illness. By THR Staff Chinua Achebe 2009 - P 2013 Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart and other ...

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 ...

A brief biography of the medical practitioner reads, “Chidi Chike Achebe MD, MPH, MBA ’92 is a physician and an executive, with more than 25 years of healthcare experience. Chidi Chike Achebe, son of ...

Chinua Achebe was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Nigeria. He was a writer, known for Things Fall Apart (1971), Things Fall Apart (1987) and Ebony (1982). He was married to Christine Chinwe Okoli.

Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the exquisite bedlam of Lagos, a megacity of extremes. Here, he defines the books that make sense of the chaos. By Stephen ...