Google, today, celebrated the late Nigeria literary heavy weight Chinua Achebe.
Google altered its homepage to show a doodle of Achebe wearing a beret hat and his signature high neck dress.
A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google’s homepage that is intended to celebrate holidays, events, achievements and people.
The first Google Doodle was in honor of the ‘Burning Man Festival’ of 1998.
On 16th November 2017, Google showed a Doodle in Nigeria for Chinua Achebe’s 87th Birthday.
Achebe born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe who was born in 1930 and died in 2013 was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.
His first novel ‘Things Fall Apart’ is often considered his best, and it said to be the most widely read book in modern African literature.
Achebe’s novels focus on the traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash of Western and traditional African values during and after the colonial era.
During his lifetime he was a titled man.
Achebe never received a Nobel Prize, despite his scholarly achievements and the global importance of his work.
According to a Wikipedia entry ,In 1988 Achebe was asked by a reporter for Quality Weekly how he felt about never winning a Nobel Prize; he replied: "My position is that the Nobel Prize is important. But it is a European prize. It’s not an African prize … Literature is not a heavyweight championship. Nigerians may think, you know, this man has been knocked out. It’s nothing to do with that."
Some of his work includes Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah.
