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Legendary Writer Chinua Achebe is Dead

Chinua Achebe : Legendary Writer Chinua Achebe is Dead

Information making the rounds and confirmed by media houses has it that Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most celebrated writers and author of the classic novel “Things Fall Apart” and the controversial “There Was A Country”, is dead.

Our sources from SaharaReporters and Naij revealed that Achebe, who was the David and Mariana Fisher Professor of Literature at Brown University, died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Professor Achebe had been sick for some time.

He was 82, having been born on November 16, 1930, and had been in hospital in recent days.
Achebe is best known for his classical novel Things fall Apart. His last book, There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra, is still making waves

As this Legendary Writer Chinua Achebe passes on, what’s your view about him? Which of his books do you like most and you can also drop your tributes here.

Chinua Achebe dead means a library has been burnt down. We hope more Nigeria students can emulate the life of people like this and create great works of Art that will forever remain in the memories of people.

Make his soul rest in perfect peace.

Source : SaharaReporters

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