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Article: Chinua Achebe.(Author Profile)(Biography)
- Article from:
- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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BORN NOVEMBER 16, 1930, in Ogidi, Nigeria, the son of a Christian churchman, Albert Chinuatumogu Achebe changed his name to Chinua Achebe to reflect his Igbo heritage while attending University College in Ibadan. In addition to being an accomplished author, he has served as an editor and publisher, taught at a number of universities and colleges (including the University of Connecticut and the University of Nigeria), and was appointed a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund in 1999. His immensely influential first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), has been translated into fifty languages. In addition to novels, Achebe has published poetry, essays, and a ...