Encyclopaedia Britannica lists Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, Father of African Literature, as one of the 12 novels considered “Greatest Books Ever Written”

(Father of African Literature)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

THE 12: Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Toni Morrison, Beloved, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man,  Alice Walker, The Color Purple, EM Forster, A Passage to India

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