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Chinua Achebe was a novelist, poet, professor at Brown University and critic. He is best known for his first novel, "Things Fall Apart"(1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature. Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi.
“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.
“Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
“Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness.
It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.
Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.
It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.
Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.
“Nobody can teach me who I am.
“Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever.