| | Literary Encyclopedia: Chinua Achebe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | In 1944 he won a place at the meritorious Government College Umuahia for his secondary school education. |
| | This school has the enviable record of having produced most of Nigeria's post-conquest leading writers (including poet Christopher Okigbo, poet Gabriel Okara, novelists Chukwuemeka Ike, I.N.C. Aniebo and Elechi Amadi, and novelist, social critic and Ogoni human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa). |
| | In 1948 Achebe won a scholarship to study medicine at the University College Ibadan, then part of London University. |
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