Chinua Achebe
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]
| Chinua Achebe | |
|---|---|
 Achebe in 2008 | |
| Born | Albert Chinualumogu Achebe 16 November 1930 Ogidi, Nigerie Pertectorate |
| Dee'd | 21 Mairch 2013 (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. |
References
eedit- ↑ Ezenwa-Ohaeto, p. 6.
- ↑ Franklin, Ruth. "After Empire: Chinua Achebe and the Great African Novel". The New Yorker, 26 May 2008. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
- ↑ Ogbaa, p. xv.