Chinua Achebe Died at 82

ChinuaAchebe ia a Nigerian novelist, poet , professor and critic.  He rewite the story of the continent that had long been told by Western voices, died on Thursday in Boston. 

He was 82-years-old. His agent in London said he died after a brief illness. Mr. Achebe has been using wheelchair since a car accident in Nigeria in 1990 left him paralyzed from the waist down.

Mr.Achebe caught the world’s attention with his first novel, “Things Fall Apart.” Published in 1958, when he was 28, the story would become a classic of world literature and required reading in university courses, selling more than 10 million copies in 45 languages.

The story, a brisk 215 pages, was inspired by his own family history as part of the Igbo nation of southeastern Nigeria, a people victimized by the racism of British colonial administrators and then by the brutality of military dictators from other Nigerian ethnic groups.

Source: nytimes

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