Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart, often considered his best, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. He won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.

Often credited as the father of African literature, Achebe is the author of five novels, four children’s books, six collections of essays, and several volumes of poetry and short stories.

His novels and essays, in particular, have been the subject of critical praise and commercial success. Achebe’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, published in 1958 by William Heinemann, remains the most widely read and studied African novel in history and has been translated into more than fifty languages.

Born in Ogidi, southeastern Nigeria, Achebe maintained the strong influences of his native Igbo culture through his work, enlivening its rich, centuries-long history and traditions and commenting both on the politics of British colonialism in the region and on its lasting legacies in postcolonial Nigeria.

During the Nigerian-Biafran War of 1967–1970, Achebe, a strong supporter of Biafran independence, acted as an ambassador for the new nation across the world. Following the war, Achebe attempted to return to politics in the newly reunited nation-state, but he soon resigned from public life due to frustration over corruption.

Though Achebe lived in the United States for several years in this period, he returned permanently to the country only in 1990, following a debilitating car accident in Nigeria that left him partially paralyzed. From 1990 to 2009, Achebe served as the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College in New York, where he founded the influential, if short-lived, journal African Commentary.

From 2009 to his death, Achebe served as David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Achebe’s influence as a writer, critic, professor, and statesman is unparalleled; to date, some fifty monographs, edited collections, and special journal issues have been devoted to his work, with scholarly essays and articles numbering well into the hundreds. Achebe’s work is notable for its shaping of language and creation of new idioms for expressing African experience in English. Politics, history, colonialism, masculinity, the family, gender, the individual in society, and more are among the many themes that run through his work.

Chinua achebe is the best from nigeria but because of biafra issue,he was robbed and. Giving to wole soyinka.
Exactly the same way biafra ss and se including benue are the onces feeding the zoo and making it the giant of africa and yet they are robbed.so on these note
Rip Chinua achebe,you are a legend and a hero.