Nigeria: Streams of Eulogies as Literary Icon Achebe Dies At 82

23 March 2013

There has been an outpouring of eulogies for renowned novelist and author of the popular novel, Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe, who died on Thursday in a hospital in Boston, United States after a prolonged illness. He was 82.

President Goodluck Jonathan has offered his condolences to the Achebe family, describing the late writer as "a nationalist and artist of the very first rank".

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