{"id":51008,"date":"2013-03-23T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/03\/africa-owes-a-debt-of-gratitude-to-achebe-zuma\/"},"modified":"2013-03-23T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T14:44:40","slug":"africa-owes-a-debt-of-gratitude-to-achebe-zuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/03\/23\/africa-owes-a-debt-of-gratitude-to-achebe-zuma\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa owes a debt of gratitude to Achebe \u2013 Zuma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"52.449739389427\">\n<p>The South African\u00a0President, Mr \u00a0Jacob Zuma, says Africa owes a debt of gratitude to late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in view of his contributions to African literature.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma said this Friday in Johannesburg while expressing his deepest condolences to the Nigerian government and\u00a0the family of late Achebe.<\/p>\n<p>According to a\u00a0statement by the presidential spokesman, Mr\u00a0Mac Maharaj, Zuma expressed his deepest condolences \u201con the sad passing away\u00a0of\u00a0the distinguished Nigerian author\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have learnt with great sadness of the passing away of this colossus of African writing. Chinua Achebe was Nigeria\u2019s and indeed Africa\u2019s greatest literary export and a legend of African literature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was in his famous novel `Things Fall Apart\u2019 that many Africans saw themselves in literature and arts at the time when most of the writing was about Africans but not by Africans. Africa owes a debt of gratitude to the writer, Achebe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the South African government and all her people, we wish to send our deepest condolences to the Achebe family, his\u00a0home country, Nigeria and the whole literary community,\u201d Zuma said. NAN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The South African\u00a0President, Mr \u00a0Jacob Zuma, says Africa owes a debt of gratitude to late Nigerian author Chinua Achebe in view of his contributions to African literature. Zuma said this Friday in Johannesburg while expressing his deepest condolences to the Nigerian government and\u00a0the family of late Achebe. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}