From 2009 to his death, Achebe served as David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in Rhode Island. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College in New York, where he founded the influential, if short-lived, journal African Commentary.
From 1990 to 2009, Achebe served as the Charles P. Though Achebe lived in the United States for several years in this period, he returned permanently to the country only in 1990, following a debilitating car accident in Nigeria that left him partially paralyzed. Following the war, Achebe attempted to return to politics in the newly reunited nation-state, but he soon resigned from public life due to frustration over corruption. During the Nigerian-Biafran War of 1967–1970, Achebe, a strong supporter of Biafran independence, acted as an ambassador for the new nation across the world. Born in Ogidi, southeastern Nigeria, Achebe maintained the strong influences of his native Igbo culture through his work, enlivening its rich, centuries-long history and traditions and commenting both on the politics of British colonialism in the region and on its lasting legacies in postcolonial Nigeria. In 1962 the novel was published as the first volume in Heinemann’s African Writers Series, of which Achebe served as general editor until 1972. Achebe’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, published in 1958 by William Heinemann, remains the most widely read and studied African novel in history and has been translated into more than fifty languages. His novels and essays, in particular, have been the subject of critical praise and commercial success. Often credited as the father of African literature, Achebe is the author of five novels, four children’s books, six collections of essays, and several volumes of poetry and short stories.
Chinua Achebe (b. Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe 16 ), winner of the 2007 Man Booker International Prize, is considered the most influential author of African literature in English of the modern era.
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