Prof Chinua Achebe is dead

[Mpitagwa]

Oh my God, what a bad news? This is what I remember for now.
“The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.”
― Chinua Achebe, Morning yet on creation day: Essays

 

[Kamundu]

[h=1]Nigerian author Chinua Achebe dies at 82[/h]

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Author Chinua Achebe outside his home at Ogidi, eastern Nigeria, in 1999.​

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By Eun Kyung Kim, TODAY contributor
Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe, whose 1958 novel “Things Fall Apart” addressed colonialism on African society, has died.
His publisher, Penguin, confirmed his death, at age 82, his publisher said Friday.
Achebe’s breakthrough novel focused on the clash between Western and traditional values. It told the story of colonialism for the first time from an African perspective, and has sold more than 10 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages.
Nelson Mandela has credited Achebe for bringing “Africa to the rest of the world" and called him "the writer in whose company the prison walls came down.”

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Achebe played a pivotal role in the development of African literature. He is the author of more than 20 books, including novels, short stories, essays and poetry collections. In 2007, he won the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction.
"We are saddened by the death of the 'Father of African literature' Chinua Achebe," said Russell Perreault, publicity director for Random House's Vintage and Anchor Books. He noted that Achebe once said, "If you don't like someone's story, write your own."
"We are grateful that he told his story and left us with a legacy of great literature and a better understanding of Africa," Perreault said in a statement.
Achebe was born Nov. 16, 1930 and raised in the village of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria. After graduating from college, he started a radio career that ended abruptly in 1966 during the national upheaval that led to Nigeria’s civil conflict, known as the Biafran War.
Achebe joined the Biafran Ministry of Information and represented Biafra on various diplomatic and fund-raising missions, according to the biography posted by Achebe’s other publisher, Penguin. He was appointed Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and began lecturing widely abroad.
At the time of his death, Achebe was a professor of Africana studies at Brown University. He also had been the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College for more than 15 years.
Achebe had lived in Rhode Island with his wife, with whom he had four children.

 

[lane]

rip prof chinua achebe. Your work has been very influential and portrayed the strength and value of african culture and literature

 

[Keykey]

Africa inaomboleza kifo chako lakini kazi yako itadumu milele. R.I.P. Chinua Achebe!

 

[Fekifeki]

Ooh my GOD,good people never live longer,i'm on the domitory reading his "A man of the people"novel! God keep his soul in peace!

mkuu mbona miaka 82 ni mingi sana!!?? Au wewe ulitaka aishi miaka mingapi ili aonekane ameishi muda mrefu?? Sisi tutafika huko kweli? Jamani kazi ya Mungu haina makosa,, R.I.P Achebe!.

 

[frank cain]

Rip chinua achebe

 

[juve2012]

R.I.P my literature teacher!

 

[Mtoto halali na hela]

so sad, r.i.p Chinua Achebe.

 

[Apex]

Chinua achebe very popular and famous writer not only in africa but world wide,i remember the books titled "things fall apart,A Man of the people and no longer at ease" we used to persue in form three was real amazing and dramatic novels, it was shaped my mind as african and i came to realize politics as platform of any changes in the world. Physically you has gone mentally you still alive ,rest in peace

 

[tetere]

RIP Prof Chinua Achebe. Great Man. Great Educator. Great Knowledge producer! Africa has had privilege to have Chinua Achebe as one of their own. His name will live forever!

 

[FortJeasus]

Hakika,vitabu vyake, bila kujali miaka vilivyochapishwa,vitaendelea,kwa kipindi kirefu kijacho,kuakisi mienendo ya kisiasa barani Afrika ikiwa hatua za dhati na za makusudi hazitachukuliwa na watawaliwa dhidi ya watawala wa bara hili.Kote barani Afrika,maandishi yake yamechangia kuzalisha ''critical mass'',nyenzo mwafaka katika kuleta mapinduzi, mageuzi na mabadiliko katika nyanja za kisiasa,kiuchumi na kisiasa.
Kwa kuwa Tanzania hatukuwahi kuonyesha namna tunavyokerwa na watawala-kwa uamuzi wetu wa kuendelea kukumbatia tawala dhalimu ,kandamizi na onevu,basi mwaka 2015,miaka mitatu baada ya kifo chake,tuwaondoe wale wote ambao Achebe alipata kuwazungumzia.Kwa hakika,kama kuna nchi inatakiwa kuyapitia upya maandishi yake kwa sasa,basi,jamii hiyo inapatikana katika pande la ardhi liitwalo Tanzania.

 

[Nyetk]

Wakuu nimeguswa sana na habari za kifo cha mwandishi huyu mashuhuri Afrka na duniani. Binafsi amegusa sana maisha na fikra zangu si wakati wa shule tu bali ktk maisha kwa ujumla. R.I.P. jembe la Afrika.

Nigerian author Chinua Achebe
dies 22 March 2013. The writer and academic wrote more than 20 works Renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82 after a brief illness.

A statement from his family said his "wisdom and courage" were an "inspiration to all who knew him". One of Africa's best known authors, his 1958 debut novel "Things Fall Apart", which dealt with the impact of colonialism in Africa, has sold more than 10 million copies. He had been living in the US since 1990 following
injuries from a car crash. The writer and academic wrote more than 20 works - some fiercely critical of politicians and a failure of leadership in Nigeria.

South African writer and Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer called him the "father of modern African literature" in 2007 when she was among the judges to award him the Man Booker International Prize in
honour of his literary career. Things Fall Apart has been translated into more than 50 languages and focuses on the traditions of Igbo society and the clash between Western and
traditional values.

 

[Mwanafikra huru]

Mwandishi Mkongwe wa vitabu toka nchini Nigeria Prof .Chinua Achebe amefariki dunia akiwa nyumbani kwake huko nchinu Marekani alipo kuwa akifundisha Brown University
Prof.Chinua ambaye amefariki akiwa na umri wa miaka 82 inasemekana hivi karibuni amekuwa akihudhulia hosptilini mara kwa mara kutokana na maradhi yaliyo kuwa yakimsumbua japo hayakuwekwa wazi

vitabu alivyo wahi kuandika ni pamoja na

- Things Fall Apart
-A man of the people
- Arro of God
- No longer at Eas and
- Anthill of the Savannah

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[Kitila Mkumbo]

He was probably the greatest African of modern times. He is gone physically but he remains with Africa permanently through his writings. Munge airehemu soho yake kiumbe huyu mwerevu na wa kipekee.

 

[marejesho]

R.I.P Prof

 

[Josephine]

RIP,
I enjoyed reading this books.Hivi sikuhizi vinasomwa kweli mashuleni?

 

[masalikwa]

Nami pia nimeguswa sana nakumbuka enzi za shule na wenzangu.r.i.p. chinua !

 

[Endangered]

Now that He is No longer at Ease, Things will be really falling apart as we lack A man of the people.
Sayonara Prof. Bye bye for good!

 

[Msafiri Kasian]

may his soul R. I. P.

 

[Sigma]

Ivi kumbe alikuwa bado hai?
RIP