Chinua Achebe

The late and great Chinua Achebe, who made a remarkable impact on African literature, was celebrated with a Google Doodle on what would have been his 87th birthday.

Chinua Achebe (pictured) — perhaps the most-influential voice in the history of African literature — died after a short illness, robbing the world of a literary elder who brought the trials and tribulations of Nigeria to the world’s consciousness for the last half century. Tributes for the 82-year-old Achebe, a scholar, poet, and social critic, […]