A great man dies. Two years pass. Then he dies again. This is not a modern koan. This is real life. This morning, tweets and status updates mourning the passing of Chinua Achebe, the legendary ...

Writer and Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka and poet and playwright J.P. Clark released a joint statement on Friday weighing in on the death of author Chinua Achebe, whom they refer to as a “brother” ...

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely seen as the grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age of 82. LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, widely ...

The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond," Chinua Achebe wrote in "Things Fall ...

It was sad when Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe died March 21 at age 82. The fact that he died in 2013 was missed by those who began circulating the death on social media Monday morning. RIPs to ...

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 Nigerian novelist, essayist and poet who largely invented modern African fiction and shaped generations of writers worldwide, foremost with his groundbreaking book “Things Fall ...

In Lagos and London and many other places, the world mourned the great African novelist Chinua Achebe, who died Thursday in Boston at 82. Achebe was best known to American readers for his novel ...

The reports have been confirmed and Nigeria’s pioneer literature giant, <strong>Chinua Achebe </strong>is dead and departed. Aged 82, the revered novelist passed ...

A barrage of tributes and condolences has flown in, inundating his family, friends and loved ones. And now his brothers-in-arts have weighed in on his demise, with opinions of gold and wisdom. In a ...