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
men yesterday get-up
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
journey people leader
Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.
men land empty
When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.
father boys doors
A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.
fall son thought-provoking
My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered
kings children hands
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
There is nothing to fear from someone who shouts.
mind littles closed-mind
Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves
definitions protest restraint
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint.
should
Women and music should not be dated.
art thinking people
Some people flinch when you talk about art in the context of the needs of society thinking you are introducing something far too common for a discussion of art. Why should art have a purpose and a use? Art shouldn't be concerned with purpose and reason and need, they say. These are improper. But from the very beginning, it seems to me, stories have indeed been meant to be enjoyed, to appeal to that part of us which enjoys good form and good shape and good sound.
okonkwo dry-bones things-fall-apart-important
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
men tortoises trouble
You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.
mother children pay
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.