Friday 22 March 2013

Professor Chinua Achebe Is Dead


One of Nigeria’s most talented and celebrated writer and author of the timeless novel, Things Fall Apart, Professor Chinua Achebe is dead.
The 82-year-old, who also recently released a new book titled ‘There Was a Country’, passed on last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
It can be recalled that the Professor Achebe, who was the David and Mariana Fisher Professor of Literature at Brown University, has been ill for some time.


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