Chinua Achebe
15 Dec
In the distant past, you wouldn’t talk about Chinua Achebe without instant reference to his mountaintop novel, Things fall apart. He was inseparable from his literary creature that outstripped its creator. But Achebe was lucky, he was spared the tragedy of bringing forth a monster, which would fatally prey on its Frankenstein god. Achebe’s own…
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Chinua Achebe lived in glory as the one-man institution who conquered the world for Mother Africa, and the great Kenyan novelist, Ngugi wa Thiongo, put it in these words: “Achebe bestrides generations and geographies.
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It was Nigerian, Chinua Achebe, that exquisite of writers that sounded a note of caution on the proclivities of the human person for uncommon and misplaced displays of courage
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Sir: When I first read the catching axiom of “Kite” and “Eagle”in Things Fall Apart, a masterpiece of one of the greatest storytellers in history, Chinua Achebe, I didn’t quite give the proverb any metaphorical interpretation...
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