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Chinua Achebe b1930
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist and poet

Chinua Achebe is probably black Africa's most widely read novelist. His first work, Things Fall Apart, has been translated into 40 languages and is regarded as a classic of world literature.
 
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