CHINUA ACHEBE: THERE WAS A MAN.

Indeed Professor Chinua Achebe was among the outstanding and dedicated sons of Igbo nation,whose thinkings and works have impacted the world positively.There was a man who abandoned a scholarship to study medicine,not because he hadn't the requirements,but because he wanted to answer a "call",Achebe made great contributions to the development of African literature through deep and positive thinkings. According to Ike Achebe,the deceased son,his father spoke "headache" to power and actually that is what it should be. There was a man whom generations unborn will both read and be told about his great artistic literary works. A man it took 43 years to release his own personal experience of the Nigerian-Biafran war, about two months after he joined his ancestors in a Boston hospital, USA,making even his death seem like already planned.In a country where national awards are seen like ticket to heaven,same Achebe refused to be honoured,apparently because half of those honoure