The gold plaque on Chinua Achebe's coffin simply called him the "eagle atop the Iroko tree" in his native Igbo language. Hundreds attended Achebe's funeral among the rolling hills of his eastern Nigeria home, a service that saw President Goodluck Jonathan literally hold up the writer's books. Ikechi Nwachukwu Nwosu, the Anglican archbishop who eulogised Achebe says: "There are some people who cannot be buried. NIGERIAN - Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honours, never fearing to criticise those he felt ruined his country. The father of African literature authored the 1958 classic, Things Fall Apart.
Monday, 27 May 2013
Funeral celebration service of a deeply admired man-Chinua Achebe
The gold plaque on Chinua Achebe's coffin simply called him the "eagle atop the Iroko tree" in his native Igbo language. Hundreds attended Achebe's funeral among the rolling hills of his eastern Nigeria home, a service that saw President Goodluck Jonathan literally hold up the writer's books. Ikechi Nwachukwu Nwosu, the Anglican archbishop who eulogised Achebe says: "There are some people who cannot be buried. NIGERIAN - Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigeria's corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honours, never fearing to criticise those he felt ruined his country. The father of African literature authored the 1958 classic, Things Fall Apart.
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