Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Novelist, Nigerian Author, wrote the Things Fall Apart, was born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe on November 16, 1930, in the Igbo town of Ogidi in eastern Nigeria. Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe died on March 21, 2013, at the age of 82, in Boston, Massachusetts, after a brief illness. Albert Chinualumogu Achebe Biography and Profile. Read more