BREAKING NEWS: Prof Chinua Achebe is dead

Professor Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most celebrated writers and author of the classic novel, ‘Things Fall Apart’, is dead.

The world’s acclaimed novelist died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 82 years.



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Quotable Quotes of Achebe

“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. ”

“I wouldn’t have wanted anyone to teach me how to write. … I prefer to stumble on it.”

“If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.”

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”

“I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine.”

‘‘Nigeria had people of great quality, and what befell us — the corruption, the political ineptitude, the war — was a great disappointment and truly devastating to those of us who witnessed it,”

On Nigeria’s Independence

‘‘Like the head of John the Baptist, this gift to Nigeria proved most unlucky.”

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