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Chinua Achebe
bkismat
#21 Posted : Friday, March 22, 2013 8:27:42 PM
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dunkang wrote:
@Kusadikika, if you are the type that quote wikipedia, you are a disgrace to the academia world. ANYBODY can write ANYTHING on wikipedia, FYI.
Wewe hutoshi kijana. READ BOY. READ!

Surely!!! Limit yourself to engineering if your African history is shallow.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt...
-Mark Twain
essyk
#22 Posted : Friday, March 22, 2013 11:06:45 PM
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When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

A man was told by an oracle that his dead father wanted him to sacrifce a goat for him and the man told the oracle to ask his dead father if he ever own a fowl when he was alive

"The mound of the fufu was so high that the people eating from one end could not see other people eating from the other end"


rip. guy was deep
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
harrydre
#23 Posted : Friday, March 22, 2013 11:23:41 PM
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Sad May he R.I.P read some of his books when i was younger and truly he is a gifted writer.


i.am.back!!!!
Kusadikika
#24 Posted : Friday, March 22, 2013 11:26:38 PM
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Unoka, Okonkwo's father had the best strategy about paying debt... well he never paid them. If you went to him to ask for your money back, he would tell you of all the other bigger debts he had, debts that were bigger than yours. So you should not bother him about your small debts when the ones he owed bigger debts did not bother him at all.....Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly

Mukiri
#25 Posted : Saturday, March 23, 2013 2:32:24 AM
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Ihuoma painted the picture of the woman I was to marry

Proverbs 19:21
Kusadikika
#26 Posted : Saturday, March 23, 2013 2:48:29 AM
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Mukiri wrote:
Ihuoma painted the picture of the woman I was to marry


Mukiri hapo umechanganyikiwa kidogo. Ihuoma was in Elechi Amadi's "The Concubine". Hapa tunaongea kuhusu Chinua Achebe of "Things fall apart", "Anthills of the Savanna" etc.

I completely understand the error though because if you read them in high school the covers of "The Concubine" and "Things Fall Apart" looked exactly the same and they are both by Nigerian writers. The Concubine was a KCSE setbook I believe in 1993 to 1995 while "Things Fall Apart" was a setbook some years back, maybe later as well.
kiriita
#27 Posted : Saturday, March 23, 2013 8:51:04 AM
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Kusadikika wrote:
Unoka, Okonkwo's father had the best strategy about paying debt... well he never paid them. If you went to him to ask for your money back, he would tell you of all the other bigger debts he had, debts that were bigger than yours. So you should not bother him about your small debts when the ones he owed bigger debts did not bother him at all.....Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly Laughing out loudly



LOL! That always cracked me up - especially the way he did it - those sticks!

Isn't he also the guy who believed that one should not do today what can be done tomorrow?

RIP CA.
Wakanyugi
#28 Posted : Saturday, March 23, 2013 10:09:12 AM
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Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity....
- William Butler Yeats
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)
Wakanyugi
#29 Posted : Saturday, March 23, 2013 10:17:10 AM
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dunkang wrote:
Chinua Achebe was a good writer but used the talent/knowledge to grow the enemity between his fellow Igbo tribesmen (of the Biafra Separist War) and the Hausa and Yoruba people (Of one united Nigeria).


Please let the old man rest in peace. The Nigerian civil war is a painful chapter better left to Nigerians to deal with the best they can.

In any case Achebe was not the only one who was caught up in the Biafra madness and forced to take sides. So was Elechi Amadi; the late Christopher Okigbo; Frederick Forsyth and many others
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)
essyk
#30 Posted : Saturday, March 23, 2013 12:45:44 PM
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Mukiri wrote:
Ihuoma painted the picture of the woman I was to marry


huh! love portion?
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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