Achebe's Book Among BBC's 100 Stories That Shaped the World

BBC Culture asked writers around the globe to pick stories that have endured across generations and continents - and changed society. Chinua Achebe's novel Things Fall Apart made it into the top 5. Other great African literary works on the list include Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions and Children of Gebelawi, written by Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz.

Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

Children of Gebelawi by Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz.

Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions

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