About Chinua Achebe: Chinua Achebe is the most widely read book in modern African literature.
When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different...
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation. This is what I try to tell my students: this is one great thing that liter...
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
The most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the rig...
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right s...
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
