FROM early in the year, scholars of African and world literature rolled out the drums to celebrate the life of Chinua Achebe and his famous novel, Things Fall Apart; the book which the critic Simon ...

I have met Chinua Achebe only three times. The first, at the National Arts Club in Manhattan, I joined the admiring circle around him. A gentle-faced man in a wheelchair. “Good evening, sir. I’m ...

This is FRESH AIR. We're going to listen to an interview with the acclaimed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who became one of the most widely read and influential African writers. He died Thursday at ...

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who wrote the popular novel “Things Fall Apart,” died at 82. Achebe died following a brief illness, said his agent, Andrew Wylie. Achebe dedicated his literary career ...

When, in 1958, the London publishers William Heinemann received a manuscript of Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart,” they were unsure whether to publish it. The central question, according to editor ...

Chinua Achebe had more than the standard allotment of respect and fame for writers, including even those who in their lifetime achieve great acclaim. One of the most notable expressions of this ...

Reviewed by Abdoulaye Saine in African studies review (New Brunswick, NJ) 48 (2) September 2005, pages 173-174 (DT1.A1 A26 AFA). siris_sil_763258 ...

When the Ugandan poet, Okot p’Bitek died in 1982, we seized the opportunity of the gathering writers in Ile-Ife, where he had spent a sabbatical year a few years before, to organise a little programme ...

Christian missionaries in Congo in 1911. From the biography of Gwen Elen Lewis. Princeton Theological Seminary “One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words,” ...