Cannibal killer, 24, ate victims’ hearts
sights returned to enugu Nsukka University.
in 1972 he moved to Massachusetts and spent much of his time since in the United States, with occasional spells in Nigeria. His last post was at Brown University in rhode island.
Through tears, former government minister and friend Dora akunyili said Mr achebe’s death “leaves a void in Nigeria, africa and globally”.
although Mr achebe never won the Nobel literature prize like fellow Nigerian Wole Soyinka, his works won praise for their vivid portrayal of african realities and their accessibility to all readers.
His contribution was recognised with a Man Booker international Prize in 2007.
He never hesitated to address harsh words to his homeland, publishing a pamphlet in 1983, The Trouble With Nigeria, ex
corruption and it as “dirty, callous, ostentatious, dishonest vulgar. in short, it is among most unpleasant places on earth”.
“The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility,” he wrote, words which chimed with the feelings of many Nigerians.
in 2004, he turned down the title Commander of the Federal republic, offered by then president Olusegun Obasanjo, reply-
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at a rUSSiaN serial killer who butchered nine victims with a knife and hammer, and said he ate two of their hearts, has been jailed for life.
alexander Bychkov targeted alcoholics and the homeless, luring them to secluded spots where he killed them, cut them up and hid the body parts.
He described all nine
kill- ings in a diary with the words: “The bloody hunt of a predator born in the year of the dragon.” a court in the Penza region convicted the 24-year-old, who styled himself “rambo”, of nine murders between September 2009 and January 2012.
Bychkov was arrested last year for raiding a hardware shop of tools and around £200 in cash. it was then that evidence of the murders came to light. ing that he was appalled by the cliques who had turned Nigeria into “a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom”. President goodluck Jonathan also tried to confer a national honour on him in 2011. He snubbed that too.
a car accident put Mr achebe in a wheelchair in 1990 and he wrote no books for more than 20 years. His last, There Was a Country was a deeply personal account, in prose and poetry, of the horrors of the 1967-70 Biafran war, ending decades of silence on the loss of friends, family and countrymen that forever shaped his outlook.