Chinua Achebe Feared Dead At 82

Chinua Achebe. Photo: Getty Images

Nothing has been confirmed yet but there are several reports suggesting that one Nigeria’s literary masters and globally celebrated novelist Albert Chínụ̀álụmọ̀gụ̀ Àchèbé otherwise known as Chinua Achebe has passed away at the age of 82.

Pandemonium is tearing up through social networks Twitter and Facebook over several reports which say Achebe died last night in a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The revered novelist’s family have not come out to confirm or deny the news.

Achebe is also reported to have taken ill a while ago.

Could it be another death rumour?: Just last week, Achebe’s son Chidi, retorted rumours that his father had passed away around that time. ‘This is lent season and I believe that this untrue gossip is spiritual distraction and I need to be in tune with God’, he told The Vanguard Newspapers.