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Chinua Achebe’s Body Arrives In Nigeria Ahead Of Burial

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Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Men ride a motor cycle taxi past a poster of late author Chinua Achebe, in Awka, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. People gathered Wednesday to celebrate the life of author Chinua Achebe, who died in March at the age of 82. His family plans to bury the literary icon Thursday in his home village of Ogidi. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

The body of renowned Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, who died in March, arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday ahead of his burial in his home state of Anambra.

Achebe, whose body arrived from the US, died in Boston at the age of 82 following an illness. Relatives of the “father of modern African literature” as well as officials were at southern Nigeria’s Enugu airport as Achebe’s coffin was lowered from the plane.

He was then taken to a stadium in Awka, where some 2,000 people had gatheredand the Anglican archbishop of Anambra prayed over his body.

“Indeed a great man of letters has gone, but we are consoled that his good works and deeds will endure for long,” said Innocent Okechukwu, a 27-year-old lawyer at the stadium.

Achebe is to be buried Thursday in his hometown of Ogidi on his family compound in a ceremony expected to be attended by fellow writers, local officials, foreign dignitaries and the Archbishop of Canterbury. A service at a local Anglican church will follow.

Achebe was best known for his 1958 debut novel “Things Fall Apart,” which has sold more than 10 million copies. He went on to write another 20 works, some critical of politicians and what he called a failure of leadership in Nigeria.

This article originally was published at Global Post.

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May 23rd, 2013
Jill Langlois

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