It has not been confirmed yet but there
are several reports suggesting that Nigeria’s literary masters and
globally celebrated novelist Albert Chínụ̀álụmọ̀gụ̀ Àchèbé also
known as Chinua Achebe has kicked the bucket at the age of 82.
Pandemonium is tearing up through social
networks Twitter and Facebook over several reports which say Achebe
died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
The revered novelist’s family have not come out to confirm or deny the
news.
Achebe is also reported to have taken ill a while ago.
Could it be another death rumour?: Just
last week, Achebe’s son Chidi, retorted rumours that his father had
passed away around that time. ‘This is lent season and I believe that
this untrue gossip is spiritual distraction and I need to be in tune
with God’, he told The Vanguard Newspapers.
Achebe, was born on November 16, 1930 in Ogidi, Anambra State.
His book Things Fall Apart, published in 1958, is considered the most widely read book in modern African Literature.
His recent book There Was a Country, an
autobiography on his experiences and views of the civil war raised a lot
of controversy, creating fresh discussions and perspectives about a
very sensitive period in Nigeria’s history today
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