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Chinua Achebe: A world-class writer, "who champions his people"
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The car fell on him, breaking his spine. These eight words create an indelible picture in our minds of the devastatingly horrible, near-fatal accident on March 22, 1990, that critically injured Chinua Achebe, the internationally acclaimed West African novelist and essayist. People were stunned, records Achebe biographer Ezenwa-Ohaeto in Chinua Achebe: A Biography.
From that day in March 1990 to July 1990, Achebe faced life in new, unknown difficult ways as he was moved first from the accident scene at Awka Nigeria, to a clinic there; then after a few days to Enugu, and finally to Paddocks ...
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Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
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