Extracted from Description: “Worlds Famous Novelist Chinua Achebe Speech on why Africa Has to Tell its Own Stories” Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as the father of modern African literature. His groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart (1958) reshaped how the world understood Africa by centering African voices, histories, and perspectives. Through his fiction, essays, and lectures, Achebe challenged colonial narratives, explored the complexities of tradition and modernity, and became a global figure in literature, culture, and postcolonial thought.