To remember Chinua Achebe who died last Thursday, Fresh Air listens back to an interview with the great African writer that originally aired on May 10, 1988. In it, Achebe talks about the literary ...

Chinua Achebe famously proclaimed in his brilliant interview with Jerome Brooks few years before his death. Published 1994 in "The Paris Review' here are excerpts of the interview. He begins with an ...

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Dr Akil Khalfani, Pan African Diaspora Ambassador to the Ooni of Ife, says the Nigerian novel, Things Fall Apart, is still valued after 65 years because it tells the story of African history, culture ...

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 ...