As often happens following the departure of high profile writers, the occasion of the celebrated Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s death in early 2013 provided the book-reading world with the reminder to review his work.He was hardly prolific- five novels, a handful of short stories and a few slim volumes of essays were all that he produced in some fifty years after his first publication- but the quality of his work generally excused his lack of productivity. He had the mark of any great writer- you would read his work, marvel at his effortlessly brilliant turn of phrase, turn to whatever guff you were working on yourself and consider packing it in for good. Reading his intelligent prose alone was enough to snuff out several myths of African incapability right away.
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