📚 LITERATURE
Chinua Achebe's Life in Weeks
Nigerian novelist widely regarded as the father of modern African literature. His debut novel Things Fall Apart is the most widely read book in modern African literature, translated into over 50 languages.
Chinua Achebe's 4,296 Weeks
Each box represents one week. Lived weeks Key milestones
Key Milestones
Enrolled at University College, Ibadan, one of the first students admitted
Published Things Fall Apart
Published A Man of the People, which eerily predicted a military coup
Paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident
Awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement
Legacy
Wrote Things Fall Apart, which challenged Western narratives about Africa and became the most widely read work of African literature, translated into over 50 languages.
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