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1930 – 2013 · Ogidi
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe wrote a whole world back into the story that had erased it.
Born Ogidi, Nigeria
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Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist, was born in 1930 in Ogidi in eastern Nigeria, when his country was still ruled by Britain. His parents were Christian converts, but the older Igbo customs and stories lived all around him. He grew up between those two worlds, and that split shaped everything he wrote.
Books on the Atlas
- Things Fall Apart 1958
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