Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer who has been a professor of languages and literature at Bard College since 1990, turned 70 last year. The college marked the occasion with a weekend of events that ...

It was sad when Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe died March 21 at age 82. The fact that he died in 2013 was missed by those who began circulating the death on social media Monday morning. RIPs to ...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe died Thursday in Boston. His first novel, Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 and is still the most widely-read piece of African literature. Nigerian writer Chinua ...

JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned “Mister Johnson,” which portrayed Africa as a land of grinning, shrieking savages. Time ...

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Nigerian writer, 70, Chinua Achebe is pictured on January 19, 2009 during a welcoming ceremony at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel in Abuja upon his return to Nigeria for the first time in over 10 years.

On May 30, 1967, Col. Odumegwu Ojukwu declared that the Republic of Biafra, a small region of southeastern Nigeria, had seceded. The young African nation, which had achieved independence from Great ...

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Things Fall Apart (1958) has been called “the finest novel written about life in Nigeria at the end of the 19th century” and “a classic of world literature.” The book describes the oppression of the ...

Chinua Achebe, widely considered the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. His popular book, Things Fall Apart, tackled the effect of colonialism on Africa, and has sold ...

I was introduced to a newcomer to the United States yesterday, and I’m not talking about an English-language learner. The newcomer is a children’s novel written by Chinua Achebe, the Nigeria-born ...

Often referred to as the “father of African literature,” author Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria on this day in 1930. Though he passed away in 2013, Google is celebrating what would be his ...