“There was a writer named Chinua Achebe in whose company the prison walls fell.”
– Nelson Mandela says of his time on Robben Island,
– Nelson Mandela says of his time on Robben Island,
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Chinua Achebe is the Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart, who has died in Boston aged 82 (Photo credit: Bella Naija) |
Very few people seem immortal to me. Chinua Achebe is one of them. I still cannot believe that he has passed on.
May his soul rest in peace.
What was your first reaction when you heard that he had died?