Prof. Achebe’s Death: A Deathly Blow

“There was a writer named Chinua Achebe in whose company the prison walls fell.”
                             –  Nelson Mandela says of his time on Robben Island,

Chinua Achebe is the Nigerian author of Things Fall Apart, who has died in Boston aged 82 (Photo credit: Bella Naija)

 Very few people seem immortal to me. Chinua Achebe is one of them. I still cannot believe that he has passed on.

May his soul rest in peace.

What was your first reaction when you heard that he had died?