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Just what was on my mind!

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter"

chinua achebe

people create stories create people or rather stories create people create stories.

When a man says yes, his chi says yes too.

We now have nairaland as a veritable tool to help us tell our very own account of the hunt. However we have let this tool digenerate into a tribal bashing ground. An exclusive home for tribal bigtory

that boy calls you father.
- Things fall apart

“It is 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." “Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior,” - Chinua Achebe’s “Anthills of the Savannah." (1987)

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

chess guru:
Am not yoruba, and am certainly not igbo, but respect is earned, and this man has certainly earned the respect of people from all over the world.
J̶̲̥̅̊u̶̲̥̅̊S̤̥̈̊τ̲̣̣̥ because a man has a contrary view to yours doesn't mean his life shouldn't be celebrated.
That's why I like the olden Chinese, and the way of the samurai...even sworn and bitter enemy's had RESPECT for each other.

BTW #it takes a bigot to know
another bigot

Wow! Come here...

Wonderful! You spoke my mind!

And your Chinese proverb sealed it.

Charity is...the opium of the privileged.

"we have lost the 20th century, do we fold
our hands and watch our children loose the 21st? NO! OVER MY DEAD BODY"

'An egg is full of meat'.Chinua Achebe.

though you may accept limitations to your actions but never accept restrictions to your imagination.

A man who has been helped by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

A man was told by an oracle that his dead father wanted him to sacrifce a goat for him and the man told the oracle to ask his dead father if he ever own a fowl when he was alive.......Things Fall Apart

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.

Chinua Achebe

My best quote
"We sometimes stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins of a great man's house".

Things fall apart.
#RIP Uncle Chinua

"Take back your gifts Unoka. You have not offended the gods, it's your laziness that has made you poor."
THINGS FALL APART, by Chinua Achebe

"those whose palm karnel ws cracked 4 dem by benevolent spirit shud not 4get 2 be humble". - Chinua Achebe.
"Things Fall Apart"

We have lost the 20th century, do we fold our hands and watch our children loose the 21st? NO, OVER MY DEAD BODY! - Chinua Achebe

“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

"Ibo people are better than everybody else"

Wow! Such beautiful quotes! D man was really an icon.

"The wisdom of the native doctor is in his tattered cap." Chinua Achebe.

"Any system in Nigeria that is not led by an Ibo does not operate with Merit"

NEW YORK (AP) -- Select quotes by Chinua Achebe, the pioneering African writer, government critic and advocate for African storytelling:

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"Okonkwo's fame had grown like a bush-fire in the harmattan. He was tall and huge, and his bushy eyebrows and wide nose gave him a very severe look. He breathed heavily, and it was said that, when he slept, his wives and children in their houses could hear him breathe." - from the 1958 novel "Things Fall Apart."

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"The story of this man who had killed a messenger and hanged himself would make interesting reading. One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a resonable paragraph, at any rate. There was so much else to include, and one must be firm in cutting out details. He had already chosen the title of the book, after much thought: `The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger.'" - from "Things Fall Apart."

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"`Heart of Darkness' projects the image of Africa as `the other world,' the antithesis of Europe and therefore of civilization, a place where a man's vaunted intelligence and refinement are finally mocked by triumphant bestiality," from "An Image of Africa," a 1975 lecture that became a widely printed essay.

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"The point of my observations should be quite clear by now, that ('Heart of Darkness' author Joseph) Conrad was a bloody racist. That this simple truth is glossed over in criticism of his work is due to the fact white racism against Africa is such a normal way of thinking that its manifestations go completely undetected." - from "An Image of Africa."

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"She looked at each in turn with a strained smile on her countenance. `Truth is beauty, isn't it? It must be you know to make someone dying in that pain, to make him ... smile. He sees it and it is ... How can I say it? ... It is unbearably, yes unbearably beautiful.'" - from the 1987 novel "Anthills of the Savannah."

ops! just remember;
"Onisha is a big city, full of dangerous pple and kidnappers".
-Chinua Achebe.
"Chike and the River".
RIP Baba.

Yoruba_Omoge: Let's not celebrate a bigot, plz

You should at least respect a dead man, knowing you will die one day. Tribalism apart, this man deserve respect, even in death. His literary contributions to generations can not be paralleled. RIP Prof.