Award-winning author Chinua Achebe, sometimes described as the grandfather of modern African literature, died this week at age 82. Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Ofeibea Quist-Arcton in Lagos ...

In 2009 he was awarded the Arts and Culture prize in the annual CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards. Chinua Achebe died ... Ben Okri’s 1991 Booker-winning novel “The Famished Road ...

On Wednesday, Nigerian-born author Chinua Achebe will accept the Gish ... a silver medallion and a significant financial award -- $300,000. Achebe, the author of the revered African novel ...

Here are five things you should know about the award-winning writer ... reader and began learning English at the age of eight, Chinua Achebe hadn’t always planned to become a beacon of the ...

Award-winning author Chimamanda Adichie will headline the inaugural edition of the 'Things Fall Apart Festival,' in honour of Chinua Achebe’s literary legacy.

Renowned and award-winning Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has passed away. The family confirmed that he died Wednesday ...

late Chinua Achebe, has received the Brigham and Women’s Hospital 2024 Faculty Development and Diversity Awards. Her brother and chairman of the African Integrated Development Enterprise Public ...

The Achebe Colloquium on Africa, the legacy project established by the famed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, brings together an international cast of leading and emerging scholars, high-level ...

In 2009 he was awarded the Arts and Culture prize in the annual CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards. Chinua Achebe died ... Ben Okri’s 1991 Booker-winning novel “The Famished Road ...