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Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by hardbody: 7:09pm On Mar 22, 2013 |
king cobra: AN ODE TO MY LITERARY HERO...... PROF. CHINUA ACHEBE. All copyright reserved. |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by Realitynaira: 7:18pm On Mar 22, 2013 |
Where the Sun begins to shine on a man. That is his morning. It is yet morning on creation day. |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by JoeMosco(m): 7:42pm On Mar 22, 2013 |
julioralph: "my son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered" Ezeulu to his stubborn son Obika in 'Arrow of God' the best of his novels by my reckoning.Things fall apart glorifies the White man's conquest of Africa... A pity that Nigerians never learnt the lessons but still enslave themselves but exporting stolen funds...... This time the Igbos will not fail to learn the lesson from his last book, "There was once a country" we must stand up against the Violence of the North and the deception of the west |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by Zonacom(m): 8:56pm On Mar 22, 2013 |
His novels, things fall apart especially, are packed with sweet proverbs and comic relief at intervals, and still historical and educative at thesame time. We are going to miss you papa. Just RIP |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by festusfeezy(m): 9:42pm On Mar 22, 2013 |
"writers do not give prescriptions but they give headaches" get me pondering wat it implies. |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by Balkan(m): 10:24pm On Mar 22, 2013 |
China Achebe wrote things fall apart when he was 28yrs. Old. Is it possible for a 28yr old man to articulate and write such book in the present Nigeria? 1 Like |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by Kckelly: 11:41pm On Mar 22, 2013 |
Pa chinua achebe, a great man, a man with great wisdom, a geniues in the world of literature, a steadfast man who rejected corrupt award from the corrupt hands. You will be greatly missed by this generation and generation unborne. Sleep well papa |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by tomakint: 12:29am On Mar 23, 2013 |
Achebe has left behind a footprint that will stand the test of time 1 Like |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by AndreUweh(m): 12:39am On Mar 23, 2013 |
tomakint: Achebe has left behind a footprint that will stand the test of timeIts true. |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by Jaybloke: 1:41am On Mar 23, 2013 |
hurricaneChris: A man who rejected $1.5million dollars from Jackson Curtis aka "50Cent" when 50cent wanted to produce a film with the title...things fall apart. This is what he replied 50cent's attorneys " This book has been existing even before he (50Cent) was born" 50cent had to change d title of that film Guy you too lie ....it was $1.5million....lie lie |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by Nobody: 1:54am On Mar 23, 2013 |
'When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth'. 'A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which it's mother puts into its palm'. 'Living fire begets cold, impotent ash'. When all the egwugwu had sat down and the sound of the many tiny bells and rattles on their bodies had subsided, Evil Forest addressed the two groups of people facing them. "Uzowulu's body, I salute you," he said. Spirits always addressed humans as "bodies." Uzowulu bent down and touched the earth with his right hand as a sign of submission. "Our father, my hand has touched the ground," he said. "Uzowulu's body, do you know me?" asked the spirit. "How can I know you, father? You are beyond our knowledge." "..I am Evil Forest. I kill a man on the day his life is sweetest to him." - Things Fall Apart 1 Like |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by doingreat(m): 2:36am On Mar 23, 2013 |
i will not miss him. He'll always be with us, in pr[color=#006600][/color]int |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by Nobody: 3:10am On Mar 23, 2013 |
hurricaneChris: ^^^correct word. RIP Prof! U |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by klokwerx: 9:49am On Mar 23, 2013 |
agog: May God grant this icon an eternal repose. I love his "Things Fall Apart - the centre cannot hold and the falcon cannot hear the falconer" quotation so much. This is a William Butler Yeats quote from "The Second Coming"... Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand; A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by Orikinla(m): 10:44am On Mar 23, 2013 |
[size=28pt]“If you don't like someone's story, write your own.” ― Chinua Achebe. BEST ADVICE FOR MOST PEOPLE ON NAIRALAND. THEY CANNOT WRITE A SINGLE ORIGINAL POST, BUT THEY CAN DERAIL TOPICS WITH THEIR RE-TARDED COMMENTS. [/size] 2 Likes |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by Papido(m): 3:52pm On Mar 23, 2013 |
''If the peni.s does not die young, it will eat bearded meat'' - Chinua Achebe 1 Like |
Re: Famous Quotes Of Prof Chinua Achebe by tpiadotcom: 5:18am On Apr 21, 2015 |
“If I hold her hand she says, ‘Don’t touch!’ this saying has always puzzled me. It feels like it has a different meaning besides what it looks like. |
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