(AP) Select quotes by Chinua Achebe, the pioneering African writer, government critic and advocate for African storytelling: “Okonkwo’s fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan. He was tall ...

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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 ...

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 ...