Achebe’s first two novels, Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease, both talk about the colonization of Nigeria and was intended to be one long novel.

More than an author, Booker T. Washington is an educator, pioneer, spokesperson, and champion of the African American community in the early 20th century.

The true pioneer of African American poetry is Phillis Wheatley, a slave from Boston, Massachusetts, who became the first African American and the third American woman to be published.