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Read through the most famous quotes from Chinua Achebe
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. ↗
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. ↗
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. ↗
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The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. ↗
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience. ↗
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. ↗
The lecture caused a storm of controversy even at the reception immediately following his talk. In his essay "The African Writer and the English Language" he discusses how the process of colonialism – for all its ills – provided colonised people from varying linguistic backgrounds "a language with which to talk to one another". His essay "A Bloody Racist: About Achebe's View of Conrad" defends Heart of Darkness as an anti-imperialist novel suggesting that "part of its greatness lies in the power of its criticisms of racial prejudice.
He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures and began writing stories as a university student. He was best known for his first novel and magnum opusThings Fall Apart (1958) which is the most widely read book in modern African literature. After graduation he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos.
