Chinua Achebe, A Legend and A Bed-Rock of Today`s Education

Authors

  • Dr. JoeBarth C. Abba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14738/abr.32.1110

Abstract

Professor Chinua Achebe is a great Nigerian African popular legend. He is regarded as the “father of modern African literature” because of his great work, Things Fall Apart translated into more than 60 languages of the world.  We shall delve more on his knowledge, his wisdom and his fruitful contributions and postulations to the academic world especially his being an internationally celebrated man as a Novelist, Playwright, Essayist and a Poet. The 82 years old world classic novelist gave up ghost on 21 March 2013; stirred who up the world-all corners of the globe on the news his passing away to the great beyond.

As the best rock of African Nigerian education, we will see in this essay his life, his being a colossus and a legend of learning and writing; and his motivational truism of life. We shall then conclude with Chinua Achebe’s expected challenges and expectation for the advancement of Nigerian-African education and excellence.

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Published

2015-04-26

How to Cite

Abba, D. J. . C. (2015). Chinua Achebe, A Legend and A Bed-Rock of Today`s Education. Archives of Business Research, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.14738/abr.32.1110