Chinua Achebe

Monday, January 01, 1990

Chinua Achebe was born in Nigeria in 1930 and immigrated to the United States in 1990 to teach at Bard College and later Brown University (2009). Achebe was an author, activist, educator, novelist, and poet who was a prominent and influential writer of modern African literature. Achebe published several books, collections, and essays such as Things Fall Apart (1958), Another Africa (1998), Home and Exile (2000), and There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra (2012). Achebe was designated a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and in 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize.