CHINUA ACHEBE’S FAMOUS first novel, Things Fall Apart, conspicuously borrows from Yeats. The memoir with which he bookends his long career, There Was a Country, is a far more literal explanation ...

A literary legacy. Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is not just a story; it is a cornerstone of African literature and has garnered international acclaim. The novel is the first in Achebe’s ...

Things Fall Apart, the first novel written by late Nigerian literary icon, Chinua Achebe, has made the list of 12 “Greatest Books Ever Written” compiled by Encyclopedia Britannica.

On The Cover:CHINUA ACHEBE Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, popularly known as Chinua Achebe, was born 16 November 1930. He is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He is best known for his ...

My literary career kick-started on the torn pages of Things Fall Apart (TFA), the classic novel by Chinua Achebe - whom I am too afraid to prefix ‘Late’.

“ Things Fall Apart,” published by Achebe in 1958, is Nigeria’s most famous English-language novel and it has sold more than ten million copies worldwide. Unfortunately, 50 Cent was not ...

Sixty years ago, 27-year-old Chinua Achebe initiated a publishing sensation when London-based William Heinemann printed 2000 hardback copies of his debut novel, Things Fall Apart. Born Albert ...

The Obi of Onitsha, Nnemeka Achebe, yesterday praised Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, as a book which not only consolidated the foundations of Anglophone African literature, but opened a ...

In August 2000, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe spoke to The Atlantic's Katie Bacon about his then-forthcoming book, Home and Exile.Achebe, who died today at age 82, devoted much of his life to what ...

Things Fall Apart, the first novel written by late Nigerian literary icon, Chinua Achebe, has made the list of 12 "Greatest Books Ever Written" compiled by Encyclopedia Britannica.