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Pete Edochie played the lead role of ‘Okonkwo’ in the 1987 Nigerian Television Authority adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s all-time best-selling novel Things Fall Apart.<\/p>\n
Hollywood star Idris Elba will reprise Pete Edochie’s iconic role in a TV adaptation of the Chinua Achebe classic Things Fall Apart, Variety<\/a><\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n In 1987, ‘Things Fall Apart’, which Amazon named among the 100 books that must be read in a lifetime, was developed into a very successful miniseries directed by David Orere and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Pete Edochie played the lead role of ‘Okonkwo’ in the 1987 Nigerian Television Authority adaptation of Chinua Achebe’s all-time best-selling novel Things Fall Apart. Hollywood star Idris Elba will reprise Pete Edochie’s iconic role in a TV adaptation of the Chinua Achebe classic Things Fall Apart, Variety reports. In 1987, ‘Things Fall Apart’, which Amazon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00290447:86af34dc82cc10c3317cf3cb6463bc25:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,49636,30846,9140,9335,257,4687,393,49635,7543,8225,6761,254],"class_list":["post-181460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-edochies","tag-elba","tag-fall","tag-idris","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-pete","tag-play","tag-role","tag-series","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00290447:86af34dc82cc10c3317cf3cb6463bc25:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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