Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic (born 1930)

Chinua Achebe

Nigerian author and literary critic (1930–2013)

Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, translated,…