Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Chinua Achebe (born November 16, 1930) is a Nigerian writer. He attended University College in Ibadan, where he studied English, history and theology. He writes in English, and is one of Africa's most acclaimed writers. Works Things Fall Apart, 1958 No Longer at Ease, 1960 The Sacrificial Egg and Other Stories, 1962 Arrow of God, 1964 A Man of the People, 1966 Chike and the River, 1966 Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems, 1971 How the Leopard Got His Claws (with John Iroaganachi), 1972 Girls at War, 1973 Christmas at Biafra, and Other Poems, 1973 Morning Yet on Creation Day, 1975 The Flute, 1975 The Drum, 1978 The Trouble With Nigeria, 1984 African Short Stories, 1984 Anthills of the Savannah, 1988 Hopes and Impediments, 1988 The title Things fall apart is taken from William Butler Yeats' poem, The Second Coming. In 1990 he was paralysed from the waist down in a car accident. This article is a stub. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.