Tributes Pour in for Literary Giant Achebe

Tributes continue to pour in to celebrate the life and work of renowned author Chinua Achebe, most famous for writing modern African classic Things Fall Apart. Comment (21) Nigeria:  Chinua Achebe 1930-2013 (analysis) Premium Times, 22 March 2013 Avuncular is the easiest word that comes to mind for me in describing China Achebe who passed on last night and joined the ancestors. Ours was not an easy relationship but it was ... read more » Nigeria:  Prof Chinua Achebe - Exit of a Literary Giant Vanguard, 23 March 2013 Turning in a widening gyre, the falcon could not hear the falconer, things fall apart and the center could not hold , mere anarchy is loosed upon the earth, that is the W. B. Yeats ... read more » Nigeria:  Remembering Chinua Achebe (opinion) allAfrica.com, 24 March 2013 Chinua was a dear friend. We first met more than forty years ago when he asked for my support with his literary journal OKIKE. And at a time when foundations did not think that ... read more » Nigeria:  Grieving the Loss of Achebe's Special Voice (opinion) allAfrica.com, 24 March 2013 Many voices have contributed to a better understanding of the complexities, the challenges and the beauty that is all over the African continent. But if we have to ask if there ... read more »              Nigeria:  Achebe's Brown University, Mourns - Plans Memorial On Late Writer's Life, Work Premium Times, 22 March 2013 Brown University, where foremost novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, worked until his death last night, says it would organize a memorial in honour of one of its most valuable faculty ... read more » Nigeria:  Tribute - Chinua Achebe 1930 - 2013 Vanguard, 23 March 2013 Chinua Achebe, I repeated to the man who informed me. Let me sit down first! read more » Nigeria:  Something Dreadful Has Happened (opinion) Premium Times, 23 March 2013 An Igbo Elegy on Hearing of the Passing of Professor Chinua Achebe, By Ife mee. Nnukwu ife mee. Chinua Achebe anabago. Onye edemede nke di egwu, read more » Nigeria:  Achebe's Passing Devastates Soyinka, Clark, Chimamanda Premium Times, 23 March 2013 It has been a gush of emotions from the literary community since the news broke early Friday of the passage of renowned novelist, Chinua Achebe, at the age of 83 in the United ... read more » Nigeria:  Jonathan - Achebe Lives On This Day, 22 March 2013 President Goodluck Jonathan Friday condoled the family of Prof. Chinua Achebe who died at the age of 82 in a US hospital. read more » Africa:  Senate Mourns Achebe, Says 'he's a Great Loss to Nigeria, Africa' Vanguard, 22 March 2013 THE Senate Friday described the death of the literary giant, Professor Chinua Achebe as a great loss to Nigeria and Africa. read more » Nigeria:  Achebe Was an Iroko of Integrity - Atiku Vanguard, 22 March 2013 FORMER  Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described the late Nigeria's and Africa's literary giant, Professor Chinua Achebe, as an icon of unmatched integrity and conviction. read more » Nigeria:  Renowned Author Chinua Achebe Dies Premium Times, 22 March 2013 Nigeria's literary icon and publisher of several novels, Chinua Achebe, is dead. read more » Zimbabwe:  Zim Writers Mourn Chinua Achebe The Herald, 23 March 2013 Zimbabwean writers yesterday described the death of popular Nigerian literary icon Chinua Achebe as a great loss to Africa as he helped shape African literature. read more » Nigeria:  Governor Obi Confirms Achebe's Death This Day, 22 March 2013 Governor Peter Obi of Anambra State has confirmed the passing away of one of the nation's foremost literary icons, Professor Chinua Achebe. read more » Rwanda:  Chinua Achebe Dies At 82 The New Times, 22 March 2013 Chinua Achebe, one of the world's most celebrated writers and author of the classic novel Things Fall Apart, is dead. read more » Nigeria:  Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead Vanguard, 22 March 2013 Professor Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most celebrated writers and author of the classic novel, ‘Things Fall Apart’, is dead. read more » Nigeria:  Achebe Is Alive - Family Vanguard, 14 March 2013 The rumoured death of foremost writer of classic novel, Things Fall Apart, Prof. Chinua Achebe, has been described as "untrue." Achebe's son, Chidi, made the revelation to ... read more »