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Chinua Achebe
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Chinua Achebe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1930
Born: November 16
Died: 2013
Died: March 22
Essayist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Short Story Writer
University Teacher
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Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
Daytime
Running
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Nothing
Toad
Toads
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Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Children are young, but they're not naive. And they're honest. They're not going to keep wide awake if the story is boring. When they get excited you can see it in their eyes.
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
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It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.
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The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
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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 the chest-without asking to be paid.
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We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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The most awful thing about power is not that it corrupts absolutely but that it makes people so utterly boring, so predictable.
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When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.
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There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
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If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.
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There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.
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When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.
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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag every man carries his own.
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Actually, I identify with all my characters, good and bad. I have to do that in order to make them genuine. I have to understand them even if I don't approve of them. Not completely - it's impossible complete identification is, in fact, not desirable.
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We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
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Africa is people may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.
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