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Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by miqos02(m): 10:02am On Mar 22, 2013
RIP prof
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Pain(m): 10:04am On Mar 22, 2013
freechat: Achebe's son dismisses rumour as untrue.
link: http://africanspotlight.com/2013/03/chinua-achebe-is-not-dead-family/


That denial was on March 15. This news is as @ today, March 22!

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Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Airforce1(m): 10:04am On Mar 22, 2013
Lilimax: GREAT QUESTION! Ewu Gambia!

Mumu
If u don't have an answer to my question why not shut the ffucckup and mind your business


1 shortblackboy: if u no know am u be illiterate. And that no be insult undecided

Is it every Ibo man I will know?

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Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Costa2000(m): 10:05am On Mar 22, 2013
Sad news
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Nobody: 10:05am On Mar 22, 2013
First of all... Maitama Sule is not dead!!
Secondly, be careful what u post,and allow on FP especially when it has to do with death... Chinua is not a politician to say people are hiding his death from Nigerians, so if he were truly dead, the media will be awash with the news..and not some backyard online paper... Be Guided oº°˚!

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Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Nobody: 10:06am On Mar 22, 2013
Pain:


That denial was on March 15. This news is as @ today, March 22!
ok
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by igarraBabe: 10:06am On Mar 22, 2013
Eeyah RIP dady, a legend is gone
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by theripper: 10:07am On Mar 22, 2013
Unconfirmed news for Front page?
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by chucky234(m): 10:08am On Mar 22, 2013
ZUBY77: Do you have any source of this sad news?
Were you on goggles
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Nobody: 10:09am On Mar 22, 2013
Ok
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by bigmo1(m): 10:10am On Mar 22, 2013
youngdady: Edited!

Are mods monitoring this thread? Pls be on hand to do the needful.
Why do you need the mods to monitor this thread. You are expecting the vultures to swoop down on this, right? I need to go and study nairaland user policy before coming back to spit venom.
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Paentera(m): 10:13am On Mar 22, 2013
naptu2:

There was a rumour (earlier in the week) that he's dead, but his daughter dispelled the rumour.

Thanks for taking the time to dispell the rumour
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Melahou(m): 10:14am On Mar 22, 2013
Every_LadY: pls tell me its not true? how can this happen to us now as a nation?Last weekend it was Maitama Sule,now its our finest novelist and icon.Hope its not rumor oo!
guess who it will be next week?
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by PapaBrowne(m): 10:14am On Mar 22, 2013
WOW!! If true, then a legend has passed! He left us with footprints cast in Rocks!

Chinua Achebe came into my consciousness as a child in Primary 2 during the period they were showing Things Fall Apart on TV.
I had no Idea how large he was until I traveled out of the country. I had a girlfriend that was half Russian, half Indian and resided in the USA. All she knew about Nigeria came from Chinua Achebe's lens through his books. Her Adoration for him gave me a new perspective of a man I never had much regard for. His books were used in classrooms across the globe to teach African Literature. Through this, my respect and regard for Achebe grew!

But I came to grasp his true impact globally when I read Barack Obama's Dreams of My Father and found Obama corroborate the exact same story my then girlfriend had told me!! Then I concluded: A prophet truly is not honoured at home!! This man is Legendary!! His impact will outlive generations globally!

If true!! Rest in peace, my hero, rest in peace!
While things might appear to have fallen apart for those who love and care for you, I know that there is a country where you will be welcomed before the break of dawn and live for time without numbers!!

Adieu!!

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Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by ezedolar: 10:15am On Mar 22, 2013
There was a country

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Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by shiftbutton: 10:17am On Mar 22, 2013
Could this be true
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by dickhardener: 10:19am On Mar 22, 2013
~Bluetooth:

The tribalistic bast'a'rd finally drops dead to meet ojuku in hell.



I hope the devil fu'c'k your ibotic blackass !
Sometimes i doubt ur education claims and offshore exposure. Your psyche has being riddled with.......seriously i don't know what to say. I am neither igbo nor yoruba, but this is just disgusting, puerile and very local

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Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Maxymilliano(m): 10:19am On Mar 22, 2013
I hope this is not true, but if it is, may God bless the soul of the departed and grant him eternal rest...
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by ZACHIE: 10:20am On Mar 22, 2013
after having waited this without any official confirmation or denial, i daresay this is false
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Fantacy1(m): 10:20am On Mar 22, 2013
OMG- jux arranging 2 meet him 4 my recent pub.
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Nobody: 10:20am On Mar 22, 2013
I can now write my own book called

There was a Man ......

...that would cause another tribal war. lol @ things finally fell apart grin

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Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by ozodimgba(m): 10:21am On Mar 22, 2013
Allahsuuuubhana, RIP
Dats if na true.
I know everylife must taste death.
No be today.
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Aringarosa(m): 10:21am On Mar 22, 2013
How so...? undecided undecided undecided

Hoping is not true though
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Soso990240(m): 10:21am On Mar 22, 2013
spiritfada: We just lost Prof. Chinua Achebe this morning in the US. Acute pneumonia.

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http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=1298&title=Breaking-News:-CHINUA-ACHEBE-IS-DEAD
*falls frm chair*
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by slimyem: 10:21am On Mar 22, 2013
the_ripper: Unconfirmed news for Front page?
That's why there's a question mark..
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by Nobody: 10:21am On Mar 22, 2013
Death is the inevitable
Re: Prof Chinua Achebe Is Dead! by hurricaneChris: 10:22am On Mar 22, 2013
This uselez thread shld be closed till d news is confirmed!

Also the mods who moved this thread to the front page shld be banned.

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