ASC Collection Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) Photograph: Mike Cohea/AP
Chinua Achebe died last Friday 21 March at the age of 82. Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, essayist and scholar, is often referred to as the father of the African novel. His debut novel, Things Fall Apart , published in 1958, was one of the watershed works of what soon became an historic burgeoning of Nigerian literature. Since that time Achebe has established himself as a world-renowned man of letters and an influential critic of - and advocate for - modern Nigeria and the great pride of the Igbo people of eastern Nigeria, to which he belongs.
Posted on 25 March 2013, last modified on 25 March 2013