50 Cent Fights Professor Chinua Achebe

Popular rapper, 50 Cent, is not happy with Nigeria's literary giant, Prof. Chinua Achebe.  His gross with the elder statesman stemmed from his refusal to allow him use the title of one of his novel - Things Fall Apart - as a title for his latest movie.

After being contacted by Achebe's legal team about the infringement, 50 Cent offered the 80 years old man $1m as settlement, but the Professor's team took it as an insult. They reasoned that 'the novel was initially produced in 1958, about 17 years before 50 Cent himself was born, and that they would not let go of the title even for $1b'.

Consequently, 50 Cent and his team has been forced to rename his movie. The new title is now All Things Fall Apart... You may wish to know that Prof. Achebe's things fall apart is Nigeria's most famous English-language novel. It has sold more than 8m copies worldwide.

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