The Swamp

Bestselling Nigerian novelist, essayist, poet and professor Chinua Achebe is dead.

Achebe died on Thursday at a hospital in Boston following a prolonged illness. He was 82. Achebe’s 1958 debut novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ told the story of British colonialism from an African perspective and went on to sell 11 million copies worldwide. It has been translated into over 50 languages and still remains one of the most popular and important pieces of literature to ever emerge from Africa.