Chinua Achebe was born in Eastern Nigeria on November 16, 1930, to Isaiah and Janet Achebe, who christened their son Albert Chinualamogu. Isaiah Okafor Achebe was a catechist for the Church Missionary Society, and he and his wife traveled Eastern Nigeria as evangelists before settling in Ogidi, Isaiah's ancestral Igbo village, five years after Chinua Achebe's birth. Growing up in Ogidi, Achebe had contact with both Christian and Igbo religious beliefs and customs.
Quote: "Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him." - Chinua Achebe
Achebe's first lessons were taught in Igbo at the church school in Ogidi. He began to learn English at the age of eight. An avid reader and an outstanding student, Achebe was selected at fourteen to attend Government College, a highly selective secondary school in Umuahia, where one of his classmates was the poet Christopher Okigbo. Upon graduation, Achebe accepted a scholarship to study medicine at University College in lbadan, but after one year decided to switch to the study of English literature, forfeiting his scholarship. With the financial assistance of his older brother John, he was able to continue his studies. read more http://123gist..com/2013/05/chinua-achebes-biography-and-works.html

Achebe was indeed an extraordinary human figure. He's truely worthy of emulation and requires due regard. We are all proud of him. Im even out to make my own history.