FROM early in the year, scholars of African and world literature rolled out the drums to celebrate the life of Chinua Achebe and his famous novel, Things Fall Apart; the book which the critic Simon Gikandi has described as constituting "the inaugural moment of African literature."
I have on my own occasion noted that Things Fall Apart is the biography of a continent. It accomplished its narrative status and served notice to those who were wont to maintain the lie of Africa as a historic and cultural tabula rasa that Africa indeed, as he would put it, was people.
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