Friday, March 22, 2013

Professor Chinua Achebe Passes On

  

Novelist, poet, professor, critic and literary giant Chinua Achebe who wrote the classic Things Fall Apart is dead. According to Sahara Reporters the world renowned author passed away last night in a Boston hospital in Massachusetts. He was aged 82 years. The details surrounding is death haven't been released yet and his family is yet to make a statement. 


 Born on the16th Day of November 1930 as Albert Chínụ̀álụmọ̀gụ̀ Àchèbé.
 Some of his novels are:
         1. Anthills of the savannah 1987
         2. Arrow of God 1964
         3. A man of the people 1966
         4. Things Fall Apart 1958 (The award winning novel) 
         5.There was a country 2012.
to mention but few. Further details of his death will be reported soon.

 

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