Chinua Achebe, a Father of Modern African Literature

Boehmer features Chinua Achebe, father of Modern African literature. If it is true that legends never die but only grow and transmogrify, then the death of the African literary giant Chinua Achebe, at the age of eighty-two, on 21 March 2013, will do nothing to dim his assured status as one of the mo...

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