It’s hard to believe that out of 50 translations of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, not one is in the novel’s mother tongue: Igbo.

It’s hard to believe that out of 50 translations of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, not one is in the novel’s mother tongue: Igbo.
Longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, this is a cynical coming-of-age story that zeroes in on corruption in 70s and 80s Congo-Brazzaville.