Nigeria's Chinua Achebe Remembered as ‘Trailblazer' for African Literature

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Genre : Miscellaneous
Principal country concerned : Column : Literature
Release/publication date : June 2013
Published on : 06/04/2013
Source : Global Voices
http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/2013/04/05/143024/

Nigerian author Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, better known as Chinua Achebe whose internationally praised writing gave Africans a voice by destroying the mold cast by colonialism, died on March 22, 2013. He was 82.

Achebe's seminal novel, "Things Fall Apart", was one of the first African novels written in English to achieve worldwide success. The novel, which was published in 1958, has been translated into more than 50 languages (...)

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