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Chinua Achebe

1930 - 2013

Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic, widely regarded as one of the founding figures of African literature in English. He is best known for his debut novel "Things Fall Apart" (1958), which has been translated into numerous languages and is considered a classic of world literature, portraying the impact of colonialism in Africa from an African perspective.

  1. I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

    Chinua Achebe
    #age#perception#nostalgia

  2. One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

    Chinua Achebe
    #integrity#honesty#compromise

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

    Chinua Achebe
    #experience#learning#irony

  4. Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

    Chinua Achebe
    #art#reality#creation