Oke: Tribute to Chinua Achebe at 80

CHINUA Achebe is one of the world’s writers whose fame has become so synchronised with that of his most famous work that you cannot think of one without the other. This is an honour Achebe shares, on account of being the author of Things Fall Apart, with such immortal men of letters as Homer (for the Iliad), Plato (for The Republic), Virgil (for The Aeneid), Dante (for The Divine Comedy), Chaucer (for The Canterbury Tales), Shakespeare (for Hamlet), Machiavelli (for The Prince), Goethe (for Faust), Tolstoy (for War and Peace), Dostoyevsky (for The Brothers Kazamarov), Pushkin (for Eugene Onegin), Flaubert (for Madame Bovary), Dickens (for Great Expectations), Mark Twain (for Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Thomas Beckett (for Waiting for Godot), George Orwell (for Animal Farm), T. S. Eliot (for The Wasteland), Rabindranath Tagore (for Gitanjali), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (for One Hundred Years of Solitude), Pablo Neruda (for the Viente Poemas ...), Khalil Gibran (for The Prophet), and a handful of others.
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