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Currently reading: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe. Last book in the African Trilogy. I really enjoyed the first two books so I’m really looking forward to this. #bookstodon #StoryGraph #ArrowofGod #ChinuaAchebe #currentlyreading

Book cover: Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe

Currently reading: No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe. I plan to complete the African Trilogy series now after rereading Things Fall Apart earlier this year. #bookstodon #StoryGraph #NoLongerAtEase #ChinuaAchebe #currentlyreading

Book cover: No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe

Currently reading: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I read this book for school about 20 years ago, so it’s past time for a reread. #nowreading #bookstodon #bannedbooks #ThingsFallApart #ChinuaAchebe

Book cover: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Who is better, Dickens or Shakespeare? We asked nine prominent writers https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/02/who-is-better-dickens-or-shakespeare #WilliamShakespeare #CharlesDickens #VirginiaWoolf #AndrewDavies #ChinuaAchebe #WoleSoyinka #SarahPerry #ElifShafak #Stagebooks #Culture #Books

"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." — #ChinuaAchebe #BlackHistory

Book eight of the year is part of the Penguin Great Ideas series #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #CurrentlyReading #Bookworm #Bibliophile #PenguinGreatIdeas #ChinuaAchebe

The cover of my copy of An Image of Africa by Chinua Achebe

«Tout s’effondre», l’économie précoloniale qui donne encore des idées.
Le célèbre roman de #ChinuaAchebe qui oppose une perspective africaine autochtone aux récits coloniaux écrits du dehors peut encore inspirer, en mettant en lumière une économie fondée sur le partage et la solidarité.
#CatherineFrammery
https://www.letemps.ch/economie/tout-s-effondre-l-economie-precoloniale-qui-donne-encore-des-idees

While some are concerned that Idris Elba will have adopt an accent as an Igbo man in colonial times, others believe the tv series is a net positive for Nollywood and the Igbo culture.#chinuaachebe #davidoyelowo #thingsfallapart #idriselba
Mixed Reactions Trail Announcement of Idris Elba-led Adaptation of ‘Things Fall Apart’

📖 #TodoSeDesmorona, muy buena novela de #ChinuaAchebe. De esos libros que mejoran, merecen la pena, por el final que tienen. 7/10.

It took me getting to the end of “Things Fall Apart” to learn that it wasn’t a nonfiction-style, daily life and rituals in a Nigerian clan “text,” but rather a gut punching story. Really powerful #ChinuaAchebe #literature

Cuando los hombres están juntos no es posible que uno de ellos se muestre más grande que los otros.

>>>CHINUA ACHEBE

Bonito viernes para tí 🤎

#viernes #elrincondekeren #frasesmotivadoras #frasesenespañol #toot #roots #chinuaachebe #fediverso #fediverse #finde #weekend #buenosdias #morning

March #reading: a lot of current reading is no more than 'to read the fiction I have brought onto the shelves and not read yet' -- some of these I have carried around for years.
#GustaveFlaubert Sentimental Education and Three Tales
#LemnSissay My Name is Why
#JamesKelman The Busconductor Hines 1984
#ChinuaAchebe Anthills of the Savannah 1987
#HenryGreen Loving 1945
#AndreyPlatonov Happy Moscow -- written 1930s, translated 2001by Robert and Elisabeth Chandler. Astonishing.

Cover of Andrey Platonov, Happy Moscow, schematic painting of a smiling woman 'Girl with the hat' by Malevich

Reading a bit of 1980s. Both these books are superbly, sometimes astonishingly well written, politically sharp and with deep resources of humour and perceptiveness. Achebe's last novel (1987) feels like a quite different type of achievement than his earlier work. Kelman's first novel (1984) just couldn't be better. Poets are the unacknowledged thingwaybobs, some novelists too. #JamesKelman #ScottishLiterature #ChinuaAchebe #AfricanLiterature #books #vendredilecture

Cover of the James Kelman's novel The Busconductor Hines, 1984. Green -- the green of green Rizla cigarette papers. "KELMAN' is done in the gold shadowed type used on the packet. Polygon, Edinburgh.

Cover of the Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savanah. The illustration includes three green bottles -- a reference to the 'ten green bottles, hanging on a wall' song which features in the plot

There Was a Country:
A Personal History of Biafra

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#Biafra
#Nigeria
#ChinuaAchebe
#memoir

The defining experience of Chinua Achebe’s life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War, of 1967–1970. The conflict was infamous for its savage impact on the Biafran people, Chinua Achebe’s people, many of whom were starved to death after the Nigerian government blockaded their borders. By then, Chinua Achebe was already a world-renowned novelist, with a young family to protect. He took the Biafran side in the conflict and served his government as a roving cultural ambassador. Immediately after, Achebe took refuge in an academic post in the United States, and for more than forty years he has maintained a considered silence on the events of those terrible years. Now, decades in the making, comes a towering reckoning with one of modern Africa’s most fateful events, from a writer whose words and courage have left an enduring stamp on world literature.

Achebe masterfully relates his experience, both as he lived it and how he has come to understand it. He begins his story with Nigeria’s birth pangs and the story of his own upbringing as a man and as a writer so that we might come to understand the country’s promise, which turned to horror when the hot winds of hatred began to stir. To read There Was a Country is to be powerfully reminded that artists have a particular obligation, especially during a time of war. All writers, Achebe argues, should be committed writers—they should speak for their history, their beliefs, and their people.

"You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break." https://bit.ly/47q7thX
#nigeria #africanwriters #MediumWriters #chinuaachebe

Today's poem:

Answer
- by Chinua Achebe

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/733323794086756352/answer?source=share

#poetry #ChinuaAchebe #realisation #power #heritage #selfhood #agency #change #values #choice

'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe

https://booksperience.org/2023/10/16/ithings-fall-apart-i-by-chinua-achebe/

#Achebe #Africa, #African, #AfricanHistory, #AfricanLiterature, #Beliefs, #Blacks, #British, #Change, #ChangeVs.Tradition, #ChinuaAchebe, #Clans, #Colonialism, #Colonialists, #Customs, #English, #Ethnic, #Ethnicity, #Faith, #Fiction, #History, #Ibo, #Igbo, #Misogyny, #Modernity, #Nigeria, #NigerianHistory, #NigerianLiterature, #Novel, #Okonkwo, #Patriarchy, #Religion, #ThingsFallApart, #Tradition, #TraditionVs.Change, #Traditions,

“If you don’t like someone’s story write your own.” — Chinua Achebe

“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.” ― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

#classics #Bookstodon #reading #ChinuaAchebe #books

Painting titled “Man with Machete” by Galinanes. Acrylic on canvas 29.5 inches by 23.5 inches. Bright glowing gold on the left, redish orange on the right behind a silhouette of a muscular black man holding a machete in his right hand. The figures arms are crossed so the machete angles across the face.

Literarischer #21März

„The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.“

#ChinuaAchebe #ArrowOfGod Tod 2013

@Jaden2 do you read #Fiction? I've got a great recommendation if you do

Things fall apart by #ChinuaAchebe It's set in Nigeria in the 1890s and documents the effect of colonialism and Christian missionaries on a tribal community. It's not about violent invasion but more about how a culture gets absorbed and changes that of the local people over time. It's full of beautiful tribal proverbs and really gives a sense of a culture which is slowly being eroded

It's short but deep

#ChinuaAchebe

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