Chinua Achebe has a surprising connection to the early days of the world wide web, because in the early 1990s Achebe's writings were digitized at one of the maj

Chinua Achebe has a surprising connection to the early days of the world wide web, because in the early 1990s Achebe's writings were digitized at one of the major U.S. supercomputing universities. This was thanks in part to funding by Sun, IBM, Apple, and NeXT, and the team of Andy van Dam (Comp Sci) and George Landow (English Lit). The project was called Intermedia and featured a range of post-colonial authors, including Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. The Intermedia Achebe texts were among the first ported to HTML and to the WWW.