But as I said, I have no other profession or interest in any other profession. So you must assume that I’ll keep working at it to the last day In this rare interview with the late Nigerian author, ...

Achebe's books are elegant, musical, and — most significantly — they'll live on as African rebuttals to the colonial narratives of Joseph Conrad and other European writers. Achebe's influence is most ...

Messengers: A two-part special that visits one of the world's greatest authors Chinua Achebe at his upstate New York home in the wake of the 50th year celebration of his bestseller novel 'Things Fall ...

Also: Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu Before The War; Genocide, And Other Issues Also: Why He Wished Achebe Had Not Written His Last Book; What He Told Ojukwu ...

The author of "Things Fall Apart," Chinua Achebe is one of the most widely read African authors. Wikimedia Commons In a 1994 interview with the Paris Review, Chinua Achebe, the world’s most ...

Award-winning author Chinua Achebe, sometimes described as the grandfather of modern African literature, died this week at age 82. Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton in Lagos, ...

“I think story telling was my life…I was curious…attempting to remember the first one is like attempting to remember the day we were born…I was absolutely fascinated by books and I had a school that ...

The African writer and the English language / Chinua Achebe -- Igbo cosmology and the parameters of individual accomplishment in Things fall apart / Clement Okafor -- Eternal sacred order versus ...

An author of more than 20 books, he was celebrated worldwide for telling African stories to a captivated world audience. He was also accorded his country’s highest award for intellectual achievement, ...