Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebewas a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apartwas considered his magnum opus, and is the most widely read book in modern African literature...
NationalityNigerian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 November 1930
CityOgidi, Nigeria
CountryNigeria
children book prose-poetry
What I can say is that it was clear to many of us that an indigenous African literary renaissance was overdue. A major objective was to challenge stereotypes, myths, and the image of ourselves and our continent, and to recast them through stories- prose, poetry, essays, and books for our children. That was my overall goal.
pride modesty inverted
What is modesty but inverted pride?
gun lips faces
She pouted her lips like a gun in my face.
stories complicated nigeria-independence
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
war vines hints
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
trouble failure-of-leadership nigeria
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,
baby lying men
You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
europe moral gray
Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities
men library old-man
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
believe book people
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, the very oldest.
oil soil fingers
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
book people different
Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.
men favors may
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 trouble by refusing a bribe than by accepting it.
black done facts
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 front.