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Poet Name: Achebe, Chinua 'Albert Chinualumogu'
Given Name: Chinua
Last Name: Achebe
Date of Birth: 16 November 1930
Biography: Chinua Achebe was born in 1930 in the town of Ogidi in eastern Nigeria, and would grow to become the author of the most read book in modern African literature, Things Fall Apart (1958). Achebe was a supporter of Biafran independence after Biafra seceded from Nigeria in 1967, acting as the region's ambassador. He was educated at University College in Nigeria, which is now the University of Ibadan. He was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1972 for his first collection, Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems, and the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.

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Education: University of Ibadan
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Events: apdp.event.000010; apdp.event.000116; apdp.event.000115; Death of Chinua Achebe; Arrest of Ken Saro-Wiwa; Nigerian Election 1983
Works: Selected Poems; Nocturnes; Satellites; Letters to Martha and other poems; Labyrinths and Paths of Thunder; The Chosen Tongue: English writing in the tropical world; The Fisherman's Invocation: Poems; White Writing: On the culture of letters in South Africa; Okike: An African Journal of New Writing; Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays; The Emergence of African Fiction; A Man of the People; Things Fall Apart; African Writers Talking: A collection of interviews; An Introduction to the African Novel; The Second Round; Heavensgate; Sirens, Knuckles, Boots. Mbari Publications, 1963.; No Longer at Ease; Arrow of God; Limits; Lenrie Peters: Poems; The Day Natal Took Off: A Satire; The Interpreters; Civil Peace; The Literature and Thought of Modern Africa; Morning Yet on Creation Day; Poems of Black Africa; More Modern African Stories; Africa Talks Back: Interviews with Anglophone African authors; The Ordeal of the African Writer; The Voice; Another Africa; Christmas in Biafra and Other Poems; Chinua Achebe: Collected Poems; Beware, Soul-Brother, and Other Poems; The Trial of Christopher Okigbo; Early Achebe; Modern African Prose: An Anthology
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Place of Birth: Nigeria, Ogidi
Spatial Coverage: Ogidi
Region: West Africa
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