Chinua Achebe, African Literary Titan, Dies at 82

JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned "Mister Johnson," which portrayed Africa as a land of grinning, shrieking savages. Time magazine called it "the best novel ever writtenThe home state of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the “father of modern African literature” who died this week in the United States, wants him to be buried in his native community, an official said Saturday. The family ofNigerian Professor Wole Soyinka says he is devastated by the death of his fellow countryman and literary icon, Chinua Achebe who died on Friday at the age of 82. Dailypost.com.ng. Soyinka made the comments on Cool FM, a private radio station in Lagos.Suffice it to say then that Chinua Achebe has been around all my life – from the Heinemann Series poster of a smiling, serious, bemused, pipe smoking Achebe that was framed in our family sitting room, to cases of mistakenThe home state of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the “father of modern African literature” who died this week in the United States, wants him to be buried in his native community, an official said Saturday. The family of
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