Little Known Black History Facts

The late Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian author who put his nation and the continent of Africa on the literary map by way of his debut novel, Things Fall Apart. Today is Achebe’s birthday and also the 60th year since the publication of his globally celebrated work. Albert Chinualumogua Achebe was born in British-occupied Nigeria […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — The opening sentence was as simple, declarative and revolutionary as a line out of Hemingway: “Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even beyond,” Chinua Achebe wrote in “Things Fall Apart.” Africans, the Nigerian author announced more than 50 years ago, had their own history, their own celebrities and […]