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The Managing Editor of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, Ken Kuranchie has praised African literary titan, Chinua Achebe whose passion for fiction helped revived African literature. He died on Thursday in Boston,USA at the age of 82. He has urged that his death should inspire Africans to read and write more. Ken Kuranchie on Citi FM�s �Big Issues� paid a tribute; �He has really written his name into the sands of history and we thank God for his life. He has lived a long and very, very productive life right up to the time that he died. May his soul rest in perfect peace. Let us all aspire to be as great as he has been for the continent of Africa�. However, in the view of Ken Kuranchie, �it is a human phenomenon that everyone is going to die but sometimes you would wish that certain people would survive for longer. I think his death should inspire all of us to read and that is the problem of Africans�. According to the Managing Editor of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, with the �exception of Kwame Nkrumah, Dr. Busia and J.B. Danquah who did some writings, most of our leaders did not write and for that matter we do not know the inner workings of what constituted the decisions that they made�. �We�ve had Acheampong, we have had Hilla Limann, and we have had Rawlings, then Kufour and the late Atta Mills. It is very, very unfortunate. They should have written so that historically we can analyze what went into some of the decisions that they took,� he maintained.