Reuters - Chinua Achebe, the grandfather of modern African literature, first began telling stories as a means to reaching the truth. Fiction, he knew, could sometimes strike deeper than real life.
September 30, 2009
Author Chinua Achebe puts pen to page after 20 years (Reuters)
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