Achebe followed Things Fall Apart with No Longer at Ease (1960) and Arrow of God (1964); the three books comprise what’s now known as The African Trilogy. The novel resonates with people all ...

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who wrote the popular novel “Things Fall Apart,” died at 82. Achebe died following a brief illness, said his agent, Andrew Wylie. Achebe dedicated his literary ...

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, acclaimed in part for his groundbreaking 1958 novel “Things Fall Apart,” has died, his British publisher, Penguin Books, said. CNN values your feedback 1.

(CNN) – Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, acclaimed in part for his groundbreaking 1958 novel “Things Fall Apart,” has died, his British publisher, Penguin Books, said Friday. He was 82. An ...

Chinua Achebe died, aged 82, almost exactly 23 years to the day a car accident in Nigeria left him paralyzed from the waist down. I wonder what Achebe scholars might make of that.

Achebe's most famous novel Things Fall Apart was published in 1958. An exploration of the tragic effect of British colonialism on a traditional African man, it has been published in almost 50 ...

The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe -- Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor -- Eternal sacred order versus ...

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 ...

Chinua Achebe who taught at colleges in the United States made literary history with his 1958 best-seller Things Fall Apart, a sobering tale about Nigeria at the beginning of its colonization ...

Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe has died. The 82-year-old was best known for his gorgeously written historical novel that served as an indictment of colonialism, “Things Fall Apart ...