Chinua Achebe

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Chinua Achebe
Achebe in 2008
Born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
16 November 1930 ( 1930-11-16 )
Ogidi , Nigerie Pertectorate
Dee'd 21 Mairch 2013 (2013-03-21) (aged 82)
Boston , Massachusetts , Unitit States
Thrift David an Marianna Fisher Varsity Professor an Professor o Africana Studies Brown Varsity (2009?2013) Charles P. Stevenson Professor o Leids an Leeteratur Bard College (1990?2008)
Naitionality Nigerian
Ethnicity Igbo
Period 1958?2013
Notable warks The African Trilogy:
? Things Fall Apart ,
? No Longer at Ease ,
? Arrow of God ;
An aa, A Man of the People , an
Anthills of the Savannah .

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe ; 16 November 1930 ? 21 Mairch 2013) wis a Nigerian novelist , poet , professor , an creetic . [1] His first novelle Things Fall Apart (1958) is an aa conseedered his magnum opus , [2] an is the maist widely read beuk in modren African leeteratur . [3]

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  1. Ezenwa-Ohaeto, p. 6.
  2. Franklin, Ruth. "After Empire: Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel" . The New Yorker , 26 May 2008. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
  3. Ogbaa, p. xv.