AP Photo-Christie Achebe, the wife of late author Chinua Achebe, at his funeral service, held at St. Philip’s Anglican Church in Ogidi, Nigeria, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigerias corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticizing those he felt ruined a country he once supported breaking away […]
AP Photo-Christie Achebe, the wife of late author Chinua Achebe, at his funeral service, held at St. Philip’s Anglican Church in Ogidi, Nigeria, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Writer Chinua Achebe shunned Nigerias corrupt politicians and twice turned down national honors, never fearing to criticizing those he felt ruined a country he once supported breaking away from. On Thursday, however, the lawmakers and the countrys elite came to him. Hundreds attended Achebes funeral among the rolling hills of his eastern Nigeria home, a service that saw even President Goodluck Jonathan literally hold up the writers books. The gold plaque on his coffin simply called him the eagle atop the Iroko tree in his native Igbo language. Photo/Sunday Alamba