When Nelson Mandela was serving 27 years in jail, he discovered a writer in whose presence "the prison walls fell down". The books he found so liberating were neither history nor politics as such, but the novels of Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian founding figure of modern fiction from the African continent, who died in 2013.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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