okonkwo was a man of few words.
RIP

RIP - surely the centre cannot hold!

@Dunkang, your observation above betrays your youth. Please try to understand where Achebe is coming from. Right now we take for granted that there is one entity called Nigeria but what you forget is that it is a relatively new concept created by the British.

Historically Nigeria was home to kingdoms that had existed for hundreds of years as separate peoples. The Northern Hausas, the Western Yorubas and Eastern Igbos were all proud distinct and separate peoples. They had nothing in common that would have brought them under one country.

Chinua Achebe, having been born in 1930 was most likely very aware of the different nations even though they were occupied by the same master (The British) and you can understand his opposition to being lumped up together with other peoples with whom they had little in common. So Achebe did not see Nigeria as you and I see it now, as one country, but he saw it as the individual pieces that were put together which in his opinion should not have happened.

@Kusadikika, the book am refering to was written in 2011/12, a whole 45 years after the war. If you can kindly put your ignorance and arrogance aside, and read about the biafra war, it had nothing to do with Nigerian variant cultures and religion, but the western world extension of their cold war.

Achebe was a great writer, that is undisputable, but the theme of his books after the 1970s did not do any favour to cohesion and integration in Nigeria.

I equate him to Prof Mutua, afterall, they both live in the US whilst the people they incite are Poor African Villagers.

@Kusadikika, if you are the type that quote wikipedia, you are a disgrace to the academia world. ANYBODY can write ANYTHING on wikipedia, FYI.
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