Surrounded by symbols, donning his signature cap and spectacles, Chinua Achebe is pictured in front of a green banner decorated with icons of his most famous literary works in Thursday’s Google Doodle ...

He is Nigeria's best-known author and has been called the father of modern African literature. Google chose to commemorate Achebe in its Doodle on Wednesday on what would have been the late author's ...

Often referred to as the “father of African literature,” author Chinua Achebe was born in Ogidi, Nigeria on this day in 1930. Though he passed away in 2013, Google is celebrating what would be his ...

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer who was one of Africa’s most widely read novelists and one of the continent’s towering men of letters, has died after a brief illness, his publisher and agent said ...

JOHNANNESBURG, South Africa — When Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe was in college, a European professor assigned “Mister Johnson,” which portrayed Africa as a land of grinning, shrieking savages. Time ...

It was sad when Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe died March 21 at age 82. The fact that he died in 2013 was missed by those who began circulating the death on social media Monday morning. RIPs to ...

Chinua Achebe has a real knack for titles. With its simple assertion that “Things Fall Apart,” Achebe’s now classic 1958 novel took Yeats’s horrified imaginings of Christian Europe’s apocalyptic end ...

Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe died Thursday in Boston. His first novel, Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 and is still the most widely-read piece of African literature. Nigerian writer Chinua ...

This is FRESH AIR. We're going to listen to an interview with the acclaimed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, who became one of the most widely read and influential African writers. He died Thursday at ...

The Nigerian novelist of "Things Fall Apart" and other works died after an illness. By THR Staff Chinua Achebe 2009 - P 2013 Chinua Achebe, the acclaimed Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart and other ...