Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, hailed as the father of African literature, died on 21 March aged 82.
Achebe was often called a beacon, an example for future generations of African writers and controversially used the oppressors’ own tongue to convey the meaning of colonisation from an African perspective. His work – spanning poetry, essays and five volumes of fiction including Things Fall Apart (1958) and Anthills of the Savannah (1987).
