Achebe

[ ah-chey-bey ]

noun

1. Chin·ua [chin, -wah], 1930–2013, Nigerian novelist.

Achebe

/ əˈtʃeɪbɪ /

noun

1. AchebeChinua19302013MNigerianWRITING: novelist Chinua. 1930–2013, Nigerian novelist. His works include Things Fall Apart (1958), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

Example Sentences

While Achebe stayed with the BBS, my father left to head up the relief effort.

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So in this way, Achebe was with me at the beginning of my writing career.

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Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer and statesman who changed African literature forever, has died at the age of 82.

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Things Fall Apart stood up and stood strong, as Achebe did throughout his career.

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As Ruth Franklin wrote in The New Yorker, Achebe practically invented the Great African Novel.

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