Friday 3 May 2013

Remembering Chinua Achebe

One of Nigeria and Africa's major writers, Chinua Achebe, passed away on the 21st of March in Boston in the US.

Amy's story

Achebe's best-known novel, Things Fall Apart, claims two Irish connections: the title itself was from William Butler Yeats' poem, The Second Coming, while the motivation for the writing came from a response

Joyce Cary and Mister Johnson.

My own personal Chinua Achebe memory first happened when Things Fall Apart was one of the texts on

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