Chinua Achebe

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn…

I’ve had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the…

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not…

In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing…

I tell my students, it’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next…

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our…

Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from…

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th…

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time…

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded…

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his…

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you…

I don’t care about age very much…

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience…