Earlier this year, Achebe Masterworks LLC, the company that holds the rights to all of Achebe’s works announced that the world will get to see Things Fall Apart, his debut novel, on screen. Published in 1958, Things Fall Apart is the most read by an African writer. For the managers of Achebe’s estates, “[A] television series combines the visual appeal of a film with the ability to tell stories overextended programming. Together with Things Fall Apart, all three books retain certain commonalities in themes and styles. In 2009, he left Bard to join the faculty of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, as the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 14, 2021 15:33 UTC