A fresh report from the Guardian’s Alison Flood:
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has spoken out about his dislike at being labelled “the father of modern African literature”.
The author of the multi-million bestseller Things Fall Apart, Achebe was given the label by Nadine Gordimer as he was awarded the Man Booker International prize two years ago; it has been frequently used both before and since. But the author said yesterday that he “resisted that very, very strongly”.
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