Professor Wole Soyinka has confirmed the passing on of fellow literary icon, Chinua Achebe and says he is “devastated” by his death.
Soyinka made the comments on Cool FM, a private radio station in Lagos.
According to BBC’s Fidelis Mbah of the BBC, who monitored the interview, the Nobel Laureate said: “I’m just devastated. I only heard about half an hour ago and I don’t want to say anything yet. I’m just devastated”
Achebe, a talented and celebrated writer and author of the timeless novel, Things Fall Apart, passed on last night in a a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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