In 1958, he produced Things Fall Apart, one of the great novels of the 20th century. It tells the story of Okonkwo, a brilliant, brutal, fatally proud Igbo warrior who is brought down by his confrontation with white missionaries. The book made Achebe, in Nadine Gordimer's words, the "father of modern African literature". Here's another, bigger shiver.
from Bryan Appleyard: The Sunday Times: Chinua Achebe: the lord of misrule
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