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Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist and author of Things Fall Apart, a work that in part led to his being called the "patriarch of the African novel."

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Achebe is known as the founding father of African American literature. After Graduating in 1954, he became a teacher at Merchants of Light in Oba. Things fall apart was one of his famous novels and up to 12 million copies were published and it was also translated into 50 languages. This novel was also at first rejected but then accepted at last.
Sources:
http://www.biography.com/people/chinua-achebe-20617665#early-years
http://www.softschools.com/facts/authors/chinua_achebe_facts/1691/

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Chinua Achebe

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1) In 1951, Chinua joined the Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation ang his position was the director of external broadcasting, meaning that broadcasting would be shared with the rest of the country. He served in that Corporation until 1966.
http://www.biography.com/people/chinua-achebe-20617665#synopsis
2) In age of eight he started to speak English. He was an outstanding student and was selected to attend Government College that was a highly selective secondary school in Umuahia. http://faculty.atu.edu/cbrucker/Achebe.html
3) Leaders of the British Government that controlled Nigeria convinced his parents to leave their traditional religion and be apart of Christianity
http://www.notablebiographies.com/A-An/Achebe-Chinua.html
4) http://www.famousauthors.org/chinua-achebe He was one of those authors that focused in politics that went through in his country and what people faced.

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-Mr.Achebe was picked at 14 to attend a government college that was highly selective secondary school in Umuahia.(
http://faculty.atu.edu/cbrucker/Achebe.html)

-He was in a car crash in the 1990's(Biography.com)

-He was married and had 4 children which made him want too write more books.(gradesaver.com)

-one of the reasons why he started writing was because how British people depicted African people in stories.(notablebiographies.com)

-He became the founding editor of Heinemann's African  Writers series in 1963(http://faculty.atu.edu/cbrucker/Achebe.html)

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Chinua Achebe wrote his first short story called 'In a village church' while he was attending University College. It brought to fame instantly.
http://www.softschools.com/facts/authors/chinua_achebe_facts/1691/

Achebe had to use a wheel chair since he was in a car accident in 1990 that left him paralyzed from the waist down. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html

he was a director of external broadcasting in 1961-66
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Chinua-Achebe

In 1990, he became the Charles P. Stevenson, Jr., professor of literature at Bard College, in New York.
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/t/things-fall-apart/chinua-achebe-biography

He blames the nation's problems on the lack of leadership in Nigeria since its independence. https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/t/things-fall-apart/chinua-achebe-biography

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Instructions:
1.) Research five pieces of valid information based on the author, Chinua Achebe's, life and experiences.
2.)  Post them below, including the names of your group members.
3.) Also, don't forget to cite your sources!