Great Lives: Chinua Achebe, Nigerian Novelist

Series 15, episode 2

Journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown picks Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart. With archive contributions from writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Chinua Achebe himself. He was born in Nigeria in 1930 and Yasmin Alibhai Brown met him twice in Uganda in the 1960s and remains deeply impressed by both his books and his life. Presented by Matthew Parris

Cast (unconfirmed)

Matthew Parris