Professor Chinua Achebe dies at 82! 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013

Novelist, poet, professor, critic and the author of the most widely read book in African literature (Things Fall Apart) professor Chinua Achebe, has
passed on. Professor Achebe died last night March 21 in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. He had been ill for a while. He was 82 years old.
The legend has gone home. May his soul rest in peace...Amen. You can read more about him right here » en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe