Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist and poet whose ... accident in 1990 left him paralyzed from the waist down. He and his wife, Christie Okoli, had four children.

Fifty years after he published Things Fall Apart, his first novel, the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe recalls ... Here at Bard, his wife, Christie Chinwe Achebe, with whom he has four children ...

Chinua Achebe, the internationally ... for decades to rewrite and reclaim the history of his native country, has died. He was 82. Mr. Achebe died following a brief illness, said his agent, Andrew ...

Chinua Achebe died ... I wonder what Achebe scholars might make of that. I wonder, too, what Achebe himself might have made of that, in his final moments. I’m trying to imagine what went ...

27Things Fall Apart%27 is among the most read books in African literature Chinua ... His world is destroyed by the introduction of British colonialism and Christian missionaries. In an essay ...

Here’s what you need to know about Chinua Achebe’s debut novel. Achebe told The Paris Review in 1994 that Yeats was one of his favorite poets, but that he “wouldn’t make too much of that ...