Chinua Achebe

Nigerian novelist and critic whose 1958 novel Things Fall Apart is among the most widely read African novels.

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Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet and critic.

Things Fall Apart, first published in 1958, follows Okonkwo, an Igbo leader, as colonial rule and missionary influence transform his community.

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Things Fall Apart

by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo, a respected Igbo leader, struggles to hold his world together as colonial administrators and missionaries arrive in his village.

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