Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) was born in Ogidi, Nigeria, and educated at the University of Ibadan, where he rejected his baptismal name, Albert, in favor of his Igbo name. He wrote Things Fall Apart at twenty-eight, partly in response to the patronizing depictions of Africa in European literature—particularly Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Things Fall Apart.