ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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CHINUA ACHEBE, born in 1930, was brought up in a Christian evangelical family in the large village of Ogidi, one of the first centres of Anglican missionary work in igboland, Eastern Nigeria. After studying medicine and literature at the University of Ibadan, he went to work for the Nigerian Brodcasting Company in Lagos .

Achebe is the author of many novels, short stories, essays and children’s books. Things  Fall Apart , His first novel, was published in 1958. It was followed by  No Longer at Ease (1960). Arrow of God (1964), which won the first New Statement Jock Campell prize, and A Man of the People (1960). Anthills of the Savannah was shortlisted for the Booker McConnell Prize in 1987. His book of poetry, Beware Soul Brother , won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize in 1972.











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