Chinua Achebe died at 82

One of the world’s most celebrated writer, Nigeria’s literary icon, A publisher of several novels most especially the classic novel Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe, is dead.

Chinua Achebe (16 November 1930 – 22 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. He died at the age of 82 in the United States where he was said to have suffered from an undisclosed ailment at a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.