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Legendary writer, Prof. Chinua Achebe, died without actualising a major ambition, News Express has learnt.
“He was working on a translation of his magnum opus Things Fall Apart into Igbo Language,” an impeccable source close to the departed wordsmith told News Express. “It is a thing of regret that he never lived to see it to a conclusion,” the source added.
Published in 1958 when Achebe was 28 years old, Things Fall Apart tells the story of how Achebe’s Igbo nation bowed to white colonialists in the 19th century.
The book has sold more than 12 million copies and has been translated into more than 50 languages. Paradoxically, however, the book is not known to have been published in Igbo Language.
It was Achebe’s desire to see Things Fall Apart in Igbo. Apart from working on a translation himself, he also approved a request by News Express Publisher, Mr. Isaac Umunna, to translate the book into Igbo.
It would be recalled that News Express on Friday morning broke the news of the death, the previous night, of Prof. Achebe in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, where he worked as professor of African studies at Brown University.
•Photo: Prof. Achebe.
