Gabriel_sylar: Why achebe......why not....dis guy....ooooooo too bad

slimyem: That's why there's a question mark..

jentlsoul: My father too die when I was in SS1 thank God now I am a graduate so therefore every one must test dead. To me is not a surprise, by the way who is this chinua achibe(the one that wrote that useless things fall apart) that all igbos are saying it can't be him as if is not human. Igbos no dey lean ur ojuku die, azikiwe die etc so what can stop this man not to follow suit.

jentlsoul: what does he know in the field of science and also comparative religion aspect that you saying Achebe is equal to book.

van bonattel:

Another nitwit seeking for attention, please read one of Achebe's books to brush up your grammer.

van bonattel:

Your intellectual god, bow down and worship him.

ZUBY77: It was bound to happen someday. It is just natural. He lived a popular life and many will remember him.

RIP, the Iroko Tree. (Okeosisi)

Airforce1:

I'm not Ibo
So he's not my intellectual god

africanunity: What a lose to our nation . OMG


Falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; The centre can not hold


Oh what a big lose. Who can emulate such intellectualism

Great men are leaving our great nation

spiritfada: We just lost Prof. Chinua Achebe this morning in the US. Acute pneumonia.

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http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detail.php?news=1298&title=Breaking-News:-CHINUA-ACHEBE-IS-DEAD

Chinua Achebe quotes (showing 1-30 of 67)
“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”

― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
tags: agape, brotherly-love, charity, compassion 493 people liked it like

“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”

― Chinua Achebe
109 people liked it like
“To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”

― Chinua Achebe
64 people liked it like
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
tags: okonwo, things-fall-apart 56 people liked it like
“Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.”

― Chinua Achebe
55 people liked it like
“One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. ”

― Chinua Achebe
27 people liked it like
“We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: "He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.”

― Chinua Achebe, The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
27 people liked it like
“Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.”

― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
tags: charity, paraphrased 26 people liked it like
“There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
25 people liked it like
“Nobody can teach me who I am.”

― Chinua Achebe
25 people liked it like
“My weapon is literature
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― Chinua Achebe
23 people liked it like
“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”

― Chinua Achebe
22 people liked it like
“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.”

― Chinua Achebe
19 people liked it like
“Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord Himself stressed the importance of fewness. Narrow is the way and few the number. To fill the Lord's holy temple with an idolatrous crowd clamoring for signs was a folly of everlasting consequence. Our Lord used the whip only once in His life - to drive the crowd away from His church.”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
tags: christianity, church, crowds, religion 16 people liked it like
“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.”

― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
tags: freedom, story, storytellers 16 people liked it like
“If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’
If I hold her foot she says ‘Don’t touch!’
But when I hold her waist-beads she pretends not to know.”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
14 people liked it like
“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. There is this complexity which seems to me to be part of the meaning of existence and everything we value.”

― Chinua Achebe
13 people liked it like
“...when we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.”

― Chinua Achebe, The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
11 people liked it like
“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”

― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
10 people liked it like
“When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
tags: inspirational-life 9 people liked it like
“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.”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
9 people liked it like
“Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.”

― Chinua Achebe, Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays
9 people liked it like
“Then listen to me,' he said and cleared his throat. 'It's true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother's hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect you. She is buried there. And that is why we say that mother is supreme. Is it right that you, Okonkwo, should bring your mother a heavy face and refuse to be comforted? Be careful or you may displease the dead. Your duty is to comfort your wives and children and take them back to your fatherland after seven years. But if you allow sorrow to weigh you down and kill you, they will all die in exile.”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
9 people liked it like
“When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”

― Chinua Achebe
8 people liked it like
“It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
”
― Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah
8 people liked it like
“Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
8 people liked it like
“There is no story that is not true.”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
tags: phylosophy 7 people liked it like
“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”

― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
tags: humanity 6 people liked it like
“Unfortunately, oppression does not automatically produce only meaningful struggle. It has the ability to call into being a wide range of responses between partial acceptance and violent rebellion. In between you can have, for instance, a vague, unfocused dissatisfaction; or, worst of all, savage infighting among the oppressed, a fierce love-hate entanglement with one another like crabs inside the fisherman's bucket, which ensures that no crab gets away. This is a serious issue for African-American deliberation.

To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!”

― Chinua Achebe, The Education of a British-Protected Child: Essays
5 people liked it like
“The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.”

― Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease
tags: inspirational, life-lessons, philosophy-of-life 5 people liked it like

ujchief:

The mods don't move topics to frontpage. Its the supermods (semid4 and mukina) or the admin (seun).
What they care about is traffic to their site, without waiting for confirmation. They're gradually eroding the prestige of this site.

Same way they flooded the front page with unconfirmed rumours of NYsc increased allowee.

We're gradually turning to www.rumour-land. Datz all!

van bonattel:

What do you know about anything else apart from hate? Achebe is a book scientist, swallow that.

Bash Me:
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Blatant liars, his family has said there's nufin of such.[/size]
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Mstchew!!!

Bash Me:
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Blatant liars, his family has said there's nufin of such.[/size]
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Mstchew!!!