observer.gm - Not every gamble pays off, but the publishing giant, Heinemann, took a big gamble in 1958, and it paid off handsomely. Fifty years after it published Chinua Achebe’s first novel, Things Fall Apart, at a time it wasn’t fashionable to do so by western publishers controlling the publishing industry then, the novel has become the all-time African fiction bestseller with millions of copies worldwide and the most translated literary work by any African writer. The Association of Nigerian Authors,...» view full story