"That boy calls you father, bear no hand in his death". From Things fall Apart.(Ezeudu advising Okonkwo to stay clear of Ikemefuna's death when he was to be sacrificed to Agbala, the oracle of hills and cave). Very interesting novel.

Oh! how will i 4get dis?
"Onisha is a big city, full of dangerous people and kidnappers".
-Chinua Achebe.
"Chike and the River".
RIP Baba.

"The mound of the fufu was so high that the people eatiing from one end could not see other poeple eating from the other end" -Chinua Achebe
one of the most celebrated exageration in African literature .
Adiue we 'll miss u but thanks for blessing the youths of the whole wide world with ur God given wisdom thru ur books.

when the artist's imagination clashes with life's very reality it creates a heavy conundrum...#there was a country

"I have watched particularly the chaos in my own state of Anambra where a small clique of renegades, openly boasting its connections in high places, seems determined to turn my homeland into a bankrupt and lawless fiefdom. I am appalled by the brazenness of this clique and the silence, if not connivance, of the Presidency,"

Achebe giving reasons for rejecting the national award Obasanjo conferred on him. (2004)



EPIC!!

Am just irresolute now! RIP sir

vanstanzy:

*Shhh!* Don't let Bluetooth and co stumble on this quote o. Or it'll be war amongst them again.

u can go about ur normal business..bluetooth has been banned.

"There was a country". One of Chinua Achebe's recent quotes and parting gift to the world before he passed on. RIP.

LOOKING AT THE KINGS MAUTH ONE WOULD THINK HE NEVER SUCK AT HIS MOTHERS B**BS abi na BR**sT
via... CHINUA ACHEBE @ things fall apart

Yoruba_Omoge: Let's not celebrate a bigot, plz

And we won't mind a fool like you.

“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

"A people who do not know where the rain beat them, would never know where their bodies would get dried".~ Chinua Achebe :

“Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.”
― Chinua Achebe , Things Fall Apart

eagle,eye:
“Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.”
― Chinua Achebe , Things Fall Apart

thé sweetest ever read..

eagle,eye:

Yeah you are correct. I think that was where he got the title of the book... Things Fall Apart.

u ve been tryin to derail dis topic wit unecesary isue..de topic says quote ur favorite quote(s) by Chinua Achebe,bt ur busy talkin abt how to let us knw where he got d title of things fall apart from...u guys wudnt stop dis yoruba n igbo beef on nairaland...

"Age was respected among his people, but
achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a
child washed his hands he could eat with kings." -
Things Fall Apart, pg 5.

The white man came to our land with a bible and a gun. He said let us pray when we opened our eyes he took our land and gave us his bible..chinua achebe

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

I love this,

"A man could not rise above the destiny of his chi. The saying of the elders was not true - that if a man said yea his chi was also affirmed. Here was a man whose chi said nay despite his own affirmation."
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.

"what do i do when a man defeacates in my obi? Do i sit down and look at him? No,i take a stick and break his head. That is what a man does"
"......this meeting is for men" - Things fall Apart.
".... Asaba is too near. Why doesn't he want to go to Lagos?" - Chike and the River

Yoruba_Omoge: Let's not celebrate a bigot, plz

Leave tribalism and celebrate a man of icon.

"things fall apart"
the center cannot hold
mere anarchy is loosed
upon the world

Wole Soyinka and JP Clark on Chinua Achebe...

''Indeed, we cannot help wondering if the recent insensate massacre of Chinua's people in Kano, only a few days ago, hastened the fatal undermining of that resilient will that had sustained him so many years after his crippling accident''

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Chinua was a man of resilient will. His works are testimony to the domination of the human spirit over the forces of repression

The Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died at age of 82. Photograph: Mike Cohea/AP
Wole Soyinka and JP Clark

For us, the loss of Chinua Achebe is, above all else, intensely personal. We have lost a brother, a colleague, a trailblazer and a doughty fighter. Of the "pioneer quartet" of contemporary Nigerian literature, two voices have been silenced – one, of the poet Christopher Okigbo, and now, the novelist Chinua Achebe. It is perhaps difficult for outsiders of that intimate circle to appreciate this sense of depletion, but we take consolation in the young generation of writers to whom the baton has been passed, those who have already creatively ensured that there is no break in the continuum of the literary vocation.

We need to stress this at a critical time of Nigerian history, where the forces of darkness appear to overshadow the illumination of existence that literature represents. These are forces that arrogantly pride themselves implacable and brutal enemies of what Chinua and his pen represented, not merely for the African continent, but for humanity. Indeed, we cannot help wondering if the recent insensate massacre of Chinua's people in Kano, only a few days ago, hastened the fatal undermining of that resilient will that had sustained him so many years after his crippling accident.

No matter the reality, after the initial shock, and a sense of abandonment, we confidently assert that Chinua lives. His works provide their enduring testimony to the domination of the human spirit over the forces of repression, bigotry and retrogression.

unless the penis dies young,it must surely eat bearded meat...Chinua Achebe.

if a man comes and shits in my room i wont run away rather i will pick up a stick and break his head. By CHINUA ACHEBE.

" if we must eat frog, then we shud eat d one dat is sweet and juicy" -Achebe

igbosunny: 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

^^^Hehehehe Smart man!