Nigeria’s foremost literary icon, Chinua Achebe has been honoured by Mega Technology giant, Google. Chinua Achebe’s image has been adapted into a doodle by Google in honour of his great achievements as a writer and in celebration of his 87th posthumous birthday.
Reacting to this on its website, Google on Thursday said that it honoured Achebe on its doodle today; Nov. 16 which would have been Achebe’s 87th birthday.
The Google Doodle just as it has been seen is that special logo on Google’s homepage which often changes to mark different holiday period or events, but then the doodle has also been used to celebrate achievements and people.
Google further commenting on their reason for celebrating Achebe said he is a figure of 20th-century literature.
”One man took it upon himself to tell the world the story of Nigeria through the eyes of its own people.
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”Chinua Achebe was the studious son of an evangelical priest. A student of English literature, he started writing in the 1950s, choosing English as his medium but weaving the storytelling tradition of the Igbo people into his books.
” His characters were insiders, everyday people such as the village chief (in Things Fall Apart); the priest (in Arrow of God) or the school teacher (in A Man of the People)
”Through their stories, we witness a Nigeria at the crossroads of civilisation, culture and generations.”
The search engine giant also detailed how Achebe had creatively brought to life the tradition of the Igbo people of Nigeria and how he was able to communicate village life with the conjugation of sacred masquerades.
Achebe who is widely respected for his rejuvenating creativity given to the Igbo people and their tradition is a recipient of quite a number of awards. Some of which are; Man booker prize 2007, Nigerian National Order of Merit Award 1979, St. Louis Literary Award 1999, The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize 2010.
The name Chinua Achebe became more pronounced after the publication of his book, ‘Things fall apart’
Up until his death, Achebe received royalties for his published works which are still referred to in institutions of higher learning worldwide. And on this posthumous 87th birthday of his, Google feels a legacy laid by him should be applauded.
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