3/24/13

Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

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Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

Ifeanyi_Urigwe March 22, 2013 19:49 Achebe, the man whose works thought us all how to read and write. You explained my Igbo culture and landscape like no other. The inspiration I drew from you and other great writers from our continent inspired my work

Suffice it to say then that Chinua Achebe has been around all my life – from the Heinemann Series poster of a smiling, serious, bemused, pipe smoking Achebe that was framed in our family sitting room, to cases of mistaken

Mr. Achebe, who has died at 82, was a lifelong observer of his home country, Nigeria.

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian author and towering man of letters whose internationally acclaimed fiction helped to revive African literature and to rewrite the story of a continent that had long been told by Western voices, died on Thursday in Boston. He

Growing up in Nigeria, Mr. Achebe attended schools that were modeled upon British public schools. In his recent book of essays, “The Education of a British-Protected Child” (2009), he was eloquent about what it felt like as a young man to read classic

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