-His full name is Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
-He was born on Nov. 16, 1930
-Mr. Achebe had used a wheelchair since a car
accident in Nigeria in 1990 left him paralyzed from the waist down which
limited his travel
-His first novel , “Things Fall Apart.” Published in
1958, when he was 28
-This book sold more than 10 million copies in 45
languages.
- He returned
home in 1979 to teach English at the University of Nigeria.
-He was praised by Nelson Mandela as the writer who
"brought Africa to the world,"
-At 14 he was accepted into an elite boarding school
in southeastern Nigeria
-As a young man he read so much that he was nicknamed
"Dictionary."
-He later won a university scholarship to study
medicine. After a year, he switched to his passion, writing, and studied
English, history and theology.
-He graduated in 1953 from University College in
Ibadan
-Nelson Mandela referred to Prof Achebe as a writer
'in whose company the prison walls fell down'”
In 2011
- Achebe rejected a Nigerian government offer
to honour him with one of the nation's highest awards at least the second
time he had done so.
-_He had lived and worked as a professor in the United
States in recent years, most recently at Brown University in Rhode Island
-An author of more than 20 books, his honors included
the 2007 Man Booker International Prize for Fiction.
-Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan issued a
statement paying tribute to Achebe as "Nigeria's globally acclaimed
writer, scholar, tutor, cultural icon, nationalist and artist of the very first
rank."
-He died on Friday 22nd March,2013
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