In an exciting development for fans of literature and film alike, Idris Elba is set to take on the lead role in A24’s upcoming television adaptation of the seminal novel Things Fall Apart, penned by ...

Africans, the Nigerian author announced more than 50 years ago, had their own history, their own celebrities and reputations. Centuries of being defined by the West were about to end, a transformation ...

Okonkwo’s inquest a stage play inspired by Chinua Achebe’s classic novel “Things Fall Apart” live on stage this October. Okonkwo’s inquest a stage play inspired by Chinua Achebe’s classic novel ...

Chinua Achebe, the internationally celebrated Nigerian author, statesman and dissident who gave literary birth to modern Africa with Things Fall Apart, died at the age of 82, on March 22, 2013. Chinua ...

Editor's note: Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, best known for his novel Things Fall Apart, died a week ago. Here is a piece about him from the March/April 2010 issue of Books & Culture. In 1929, the ...

Edmond Onuzuruike is a committed member of the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA). Author of many books, he is also a novelist and biographer. Apart from being a storyteller, he writes political ...

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LAGOS, March 22 (Reuters) - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. From the publication of his first novel, "Things ...

Things Fall Apart, A story about the incursion of Western missionaries into an Igbo community in 19th century Nigeria, has long gripped readers across the world. It’s not an obvious subject to arouse ...

"Namely, a writer of our story." 'A New Kind of Writing' What Chinua Achebe was to be, according to innumerable writers, scholars and admirers, was the father of modern African literature, a writer ...