Chinua Achebe ✓

(1930–2013) satirical novelist Nigeria

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[Wikidata] Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (1930-2013)... | [Wikipedia] Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as a central figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains the most widely studied, translated, and read African novel.

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• The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in… Black
• In such a regime, I say, you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in… Asking
• I believe in the complexity of the human story, and that there's no way you can tell that story in one way and say, 'this… Believe
• Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness. Book
• The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water… Air
• Serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. Always Existed
• Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission… Abnormality
• People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of… Africa
• The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis,… Believe
• There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him. Beaten
• When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. Burns
• The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place. Dancing
• Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities Africa
• You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies. Babies
• When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm. According
• The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership, Failure
• A man to whom you do a favor will not understand if you say nothing, make no noise, just walk away. You may cause more… Accepting
• Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality. Down
• As our fathers said, you can tell a ripe corn by its look. Corn
• The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on… Already Chosen
• When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. Big
• If one finger brings oil it soils the others. Brings
• One would think he never sucked at his mother’s breast. Breast
• When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth Chewing
• They say a man is like a funeral ram which must take whatever beating comes to it without opening its mouth; only the silent tremor… Beating

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