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Achebe followed Things Fall Apart with No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964); the three books comprise what’s now ...
Chinua Achebe was a literary giant and a gentle rebel, who refused to shake the necrotic outstretched hands of corrupt leaders. By ...
The week-long festival coincides with the 67th anniversary of the novel, Things Fall Apart. Things Fall Apart, a fictional book written by the legendary writer Chinua Achebe, is 67 years old.
Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart ranks as one of the rare books that had never gone out-of-print since its publication ...
The Achebe Colloquium on Africa, the legacy project established by the famed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, brings together an international cast of leading and emerging scholars, high-level ...
I buy new notebooks, and frequently new pens, every January, any time I start a new project – or sometimes just because I see ...
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, It is an honour to welcome you all to this significant occasion mdash;the 67th ...
Chinua Achebe. | Leonardo Cendamo/GettyImages. In 2008, 50 years after publishing his debut novel, Achebe explained to PBS News Hour that he wrote Things Fall Apart because “something needed to ...