Though he never received the Nobel Prize, his 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart, is the world's most widely read African novel.
See an excerpt from his talk here in Albany on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZNAMPsmS4I
Read a BBC obituary here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21898664
Read the New York Times obit here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html?_r=0
NPR obit here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/22/175025166/chinua-achebe-nigerian-author-of-things-fall-apart-dies
Photo: Video still, Achebe at the New York State Writers Institute.
