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 ...

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

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Okonkwo had given his second wife, Ekwefi, a thorough beating over a non-issue and was about to go hunting, something he was not renowned for, a fact known to ...

When Ndulue dies, his wife Ozoemena goes to his hut to see ... I suspect that, as happens in the best fiction, Chinua Achebe did not have complete control over this character; ultimately the ...