mezzo-soprano who starred at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1940s and 1950s and was best known for playing the lead role in “Carmen.” Died March 20. Chinua Achebe, 82. The Nigerian author of “Things Fall Apart” (1958), one of the first novels by an African writer to attract a worldwide audience. Died March 21.

ds, but are each deeply connected to the leadership we each need to cultivate in ourselves. The first is by the Nigerian author and Nobel Laureate, Chinua Achebe who wrote the following: Leadership is a sacred trust like priesthood in civilized, humane religions. No one gets into it lightly or unadvisedly b