The aphorism ldquo;Will the gods crack your palm kernel for you? rdquo; is an African proverb made popular by Chinua Achebe ...

The death of Chinua Achebe represents more than the loss of a great writer. Achebe was perhaps the first to give voice with elegance, a poetic prose, and startling insight to the other side of the ...

Chinua Achebe, the prominent Nigerian novelist and essayist who died on Thursday, said in a 1994 interview with the Paris Review, "There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their ...

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 ...

I buy new notebooks, and frequently new pens, every January, any time I start a new project – or sometimes just because I see ...

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.

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 ...

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart ranks as one of the rare books that had never gone out-of-print since its publication ...

Being a paper presented in the poetry workshop taking place at the first ever Things Fall Apart Festival holding in Enugu ...

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 ...