A first print, first edition copy of Chinua Achebe’s classic novel, Things Fall Apart sold for N1million in a private sale.
The private sale took place on Twitter after Lola Shoneyin, author of The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives tweeted “Hey book collectors! My friend is selling a first print, first edition copy of ‘Things Fall Apart’ for N1million. Reply here and she will contact you,”
After several retweets, the book got an anonymous buyer who paid N1million for it but more requests for the classic novel came flooding in until Lola Shoneyin closed the sales by announcing that the book has been sold. She tweeted: “The book has been bought by an anonymous buyer,” and that finally closed the sales.
Chinua Achebe published Things Fall Apart in 1958; its story chronicles pre-colonial life in the south-eastern part of Nigeria, the arrival of the Europeans during the late nineteenth century and how that changed the lives of the indigenous people. It is one of the best novels ever written by an African.
Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and literary critic, he won the Man Booker International Prize in 2007.