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On the C-SPAN Networks: Chinua Achebe is a Professor for Languages and Literature in the Bard College with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2000 Speech. The year ...

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, the author of the landmark novel Things Fall Apart, has died at the age of 82. The Associated Press reports that he had a brief illness. It’s a staple of American ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. From the publication of his first novel, "Things Fall Apart", ...

Things Fall Apart, A story about the incursion of Western missionaries into an Igbo community in 19th century Nigeria, has long gripped readers across the world. It’s not an obvious subject to arouse ...

Try this short quiz on Africa’s vibrant literary scene and its globally popular authors. By J. D. Biersdorfer Like many Nigerians, the novelist Stephen Buoro has been deeply influenced by the ...