Chinua Achebe (/ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

Chinua Achebe (/ˈtʃɪnwɑː əˈtʃɛbeɪ/; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958), often considered his masterpiece, is the most widely read book in modern African literature

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A true classic of world literature. A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read . One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden.

In January 1966 Chinua Achebe attended a meeting of the newly founded Society of Nigerian Authors. His 1958 debut novel, Things Fall Apart, had made him a literary celebrity abroad and an influential public intellectual at home. But six years after the celebrations and optimism that marked Nigerian independence, he says there were already "far too many indications that we might not be going to have a good time.

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Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist who depicted the disorientation accompanying the imposition of Western . The author of Things Fall Apart wrote many works about the effect of British imperialism on Nigerian culture.

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In 1958 Chinua Achebe published Things Fall Apart, the novel that helped . Achebe starts with his own people, the Igbo.

In 1958 Chinua Achebe published Things Fall Apart, the novel that helped usher in a new wave of African literature. Until that point literature concerning African had been written by European colonials, and was rife with derogatory depictions of African people and their varied cultures. He dismisses the notion that, in numbering over ten million, they can be a tribe by dictionary definition. Only with the right people contributing their own stories can literature find the necessary balance be made that will lead to a universal civilisation.

Writer and educator Chinua Achebe taught on several continents during his lifetime, and his award-winning . Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist and author of 'Things Fall Apart,' a work that in part led to his being called the 'patriarch of the African novel

Writer and educator Chinua Achebe taught on several continents during his lifetime, and his award-winning literary works continue to be read today. Learn more at Biography. Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist and author of 'Things Fall Apart,' a work that in part led to his being called the 'patriarch of the African novel. Who Was Chinua Achebe? Born in Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe made a splash with the publication of his first novel, Things Fall Apart, in 1958.