Chinua Achebe is Dead

Foremost novelist, Prof Chinua Achebe, is dead. He was aged 82. Information reaching us is that he gave up the ghost last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

A source close to the family said the professor had been ill for a while and was hospitalised in an undisclosed hospital in Boston. He wrote the famous novel 'Things Fall Apart' and latest controversial novel on Biafra, 'There was A Country.'

RIP great one.