Achebe’s UNFINISHED PROJECT

Legendary writer, Prof. Chinua Achebe, died without actualising amajor
ambition, News Express has learnt.
"He was working on a translation of his magnum opus Things Fall Apart
into Igbo Language," an impeccable source close to the departed
wordsmith told News Express. "It is a thing of regret that he never
lived to see it to a conclusion," the source added.
Published in 1958 when Achebe was 28 years old, Things Fall Apart
tells the story of how Achebe's Igbo nation bowed to white
colonialists in the 19 th century.
The book has sold more than 12 million copies and has been translated
into more than 50 languages. Paradoxically, however, the book is not
known to have been published in Igbo Language.
It was Achebe's desire to see Things Fall Apart in Igbo. Apart from
working on a translation himself, he also approved a request by News
Express Publisher, Mr. Isaac Umunna, to translate the book into Igbo.
It would be recalled that News Express on Friday morning broke the
news of the death, the previous night, of Prof. Achebe in Boston,
Massachusetts, USA, where he worked as professor of African studies at
Brown University.