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The man who gave Africa a voice

Last week, the literary world lost Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, the man who is hailed as the father of modern African literature and best known for his stand against colonial oppression. His debut novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), showed Africa as honestly and poignantly as possible, and remains Achebe's best work. SMD brings you some of the man's other, lesser-known books which are just as powerful in the message they convey

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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart was first published in 1958, but every developing society in the world continues to relate its present with the events and concerns Chinua Achebe expresses in it. Readers, young and old, continue to identify themselves with the disintegration of succumbing values that have plagued human history.

Things Fall Apart

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