Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Nigeria

Internationally famous Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, has been named to a professorial chair at one of the greatest universities in the United States, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said.

Considered an Ivy League school in the U.S., Brown University in Providence Rhode Island, is the seventh oldest U.S. higher institution and was founded in 1764 while the country was still a colony of the British.

Achebe’s appointment was confirmed by Ruth J. Simmons and Dr. Tricia Rose, respectively the university’s president and the chairman of Africana department, in a statement circulated at the weekend in the U.S.

“I am very delighted to be associated with Achebe’s work,” Simmons said in the statement.

In his reaction to the appointment, Achebe told Nigerian newspaper, The Guardian that “President Ruth Simmons has provided an unusual opportunity for me to continue my life’s work at one of the world’s greatest institutions – the Brown University.”

Achebe is the author of the classic, Things Fall Apart, which has sold more than 8 million copies till date and has been translated into a dozen international languages.

He has been living in the U.S. since 1990 after a car accident left him partially disabled.Kingsley Kobo, AfricaNews reporter in Abidjan, Nigeria

Internationally famous Nigerian author, Chinua Achebe, has been named to a professorial chair at one of the greatest universities in the United States, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) said.

Considered an Ivy League school in the U.S., Brown University in Providence Rhode Island, is the seventh oldest U.S. higher institution and was founded in 1764 while the country was still a colony of the British.

Achebe’s appointment was confirmed by Ruth J. Simmons and Dr. Tricia Rose, respectively the university’s president and the chairman of Africana department, in a statement circulated at the weekend in the U.S.

“I am very delighted to be associated with Achebe’s work,” Simmons said in the statement.

In his reaction to the appointment, Achebe told Nigerian newspaper, The Guardian that “President Ruth Simmons has provided an unusual opportunity for me to continue my life’s work at one of the world’s greatest institutions – the Brown University.”

Achebe is the author of the classic, Things Fall Apart, which has sold more than 8 million copies till date and has been translated into a dozen international languages.

He has been living in the U.S. since 1990 after a car accident left him partially disabled.

Source:http://www.africanews.com/site/US_varsity_honours_Chinua_Achebe/list_messages/26950

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