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
children people world
Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That's not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.
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 thought-provoking doe
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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.
men hands should
A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.
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.
self shoes understanding
The triumph of the written word is often attained when the writer achieves union and trust with the reader, who then becomes ready to be drawn into unfamiliar territory, walking in borrowed literary shoes so to speak, toward a deeper understanding of self or society, or of foreign peoples, cultures, and situations.
should
Women and music should not be dated.