http://1079ishot.com Acadiana's Hottest Music Sun, 19 May 2013 23:09:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://1079ishot.com/things-fall-apart-chinua-achebe-50-cent-movie-title/ http://1079ishot.com/things-fall-apart-chinua-achebe-50-cent-movie-title/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:40:51 +0000 Juwon Ajayi http://tsminteractive.com/?p=46112 Things Fall Apart is considered one of the most important books to come out of Africa. The book’s author, Chinua Achebe, is a respected novelist, poet, professor and critic. So when the producers of 50 cent’s film of the same name tried to pay the author $1 million to keep the name, he said no.

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