Chinua Achebe

GPTKB entity
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gptkb:Peace_Prize_of_the_German_Book_Trade
gptkb:Commonwealth_Poetry_Prize
gptkb:Nigerian_National_Order_of_Merit_Award
gptkb:St._Louis_Literary_Award
gptkb:The_Dorothy_and_Lillian_Gish_Prize
gptkbp:birthDate 1930-11-16
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Ogidi,_Nigeria
gptkbp:causeOfDeath illness
gptkbp:children gptkb:Chidi_Achebe
gptkb:Chinelo_Achebe
gptkb:Ijeoma_Achebe
gptkb:Nwando_Achebe
gptkbp:deathDate 2013-03-21
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts,_USA
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Brown_University
gptkb:Bard_College
gptkb:University_of_Nigeria,_Nsukka
gptkbp:ethnicGroup gptkb:Igbo_people
gptkbp:genre postcolonial literature
African literature
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Chinua Achebe
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gptkb:Wole_Soyinka
gptkb:Ben_Okri
gptkb:Ngũgĩ_wa_Thiong'o
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gptkb:Amos_Tutuola
gptkb:Joyce_Cary
gptkbp:language English
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gptkb:Royal_Society_of_Literature
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gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:A_Man_of_the_People
gptkb:Anthills_of_the_Savannah
gptkb:Arrow_of_God
gptkb:No_Longer_at_Ease
gptkb:Things_Fall_Apart
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:poet
gptkb:professor
literary criticism
novelist
gptkbp:religion gptkb:Christianity
gptkbp:signature Chinua Achebe signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Christiana_Chinwe_Okoli
gptkbp:subjectOf gptkb:Home_and_Exile
gptkb:Hopes_and_Impediments
gptkb:The_Education_of_a_British-Protected_Child
gptkb:There_Was_a_Country:_A_Personal_History_of_Biafra
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gptkb:Arts_et_Lettres
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