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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