Icon prof Chinua Achebe is dead

Professor Chinua Achebe, one of the world's most celebrated writers and author of the classic novel, 'Things Fall Apart', is dead.

The author of "Things Fall Apart", among other books, stirred acrimonious debate with his last book on Biafra, "There Was A Country", published late last year.

the world's acclaimed novelist died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 82 years