Professor Chinualumogu Achebe is dead

Sahara report that Nigeria’s foremost storyteller, Professor Chinualumogu Achebe is dead. He died of acute pneumonia in the United States.


Chinua Achebe’s latest book, There was a Country, has appeared fifty-four years after the author’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, today arguably the best-known novel ever written by an African.

It has also been characterised by outstanding acts of defiance: from taking on Joseph Conrad to twice turning down Nigeria’s national honours.