Friday, March 22, 2013

BULLETIN: AP Mobile: Chinua Achebe, celebrated Nigerian novelist, dies

A story from AP Mobile:

Chinua Achebe, celebrated Nigerian novelist, dies

thumbnailNEW YORK (AP) - The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond," Chinua Achebe wrote in "Things Fall Apart." Africans, the Nigerian author announced more than 50 years ago, had their own history, their own celebrities and reputations. Centuries of being defined by the West were about...

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