"İnsanlar, insanları yaratan hikayeler yaratırlar; daha doğrusu, hikayeler yaratan insanları yaratan hikayeler."
#ChinuaAchebe
Nijerya'lı yazar, şâir, profesör ve eleştirmenin aramızdan ayrılışının 13. yılında saygıyla..
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
Obituary: www.theguardian.com/books/2013/m...
✒️ #ChinuaAchebe, Nigerian poet and novelist (Things Fall Apart), #DOTD 21 March 2013. #Poetry #Literature
Quote of the Day:
“To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”
- Chinua Achebe
#QuoteOfTheDay #ChinuaAchebe #Intellectualism #Joy
"Until the lions have their own historians, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." ~ #ChinuaAchebe
Quote of the Day:
“There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.”
- Chinua Achebe
#QuoteOfDay #ChinuaAchebe #Power
Hoy en Málaga al Día hemos hablado de "Solanin" de Inio Asano y de "Todo se desmorona" de Chinua Achebe. Luego puedes escuchar el programa completo en la web de Canal Málaga Radio. 🙂 #InioAsano #ChinuaAchebe #Podcast
Quote of the Day:
“Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.”
- Chinua Achebe
#QuoteOfTheDay #ChinuaAchebe #Wisdom #GoatskinBag
#ChinuaAchebe was born in British #Nigeria #OnThisDay in 1930; the Nigerian government revoked his passport in 1970 due to his support for #Biafra's independence; we're seeing the truth of his dictum that "Things Fall Apart" today in the US & elsewhere...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_...
"... Africa's best-known novelist and the founding father of African fiction."
#ChinuaAchebe
1930-2013
Born on this day
www.theguardian.com/books/2013/m...
A black and white photograph of Chinua Achebe.
Today is the birthday of Nigerian novelist, poet and critic Chinua Achebe, whose work has been immensely influential in the development of modern literature in Africa and beyond. His most cataloged books on LibraryThing are "Things Fall Apart," and "No Longer At Ease." #ChinuaAchebe #💙📚 #Booksky
A black and white photograph of novelist Chinua Achebe sitting on grass holding a book.
On this day in 1930 Chinua Achebe was born.
Born the son of a teacher, he worked in Broadcasting before becoming one of Nigeria's most famous writers.
Nelson Mandela was a big fan, and read Achebe's books while he was in prison.
#OnThisDay #Anniversary #ChinuaAchebe #Books
Nouveau billet dans #paysages : « Blognotice 30.07.2025: et encore les souvenirs du #Biafra se mêlent aux images de la #famine à #Gaza » #NewtonAduaka #NewtonIfeanyiAduaka #ChinuaAchebe
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Nouveau billet dans #paysages « Ces images insoutenables qui me rappellent les souvenirs des enfants du #Biafra »
#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #faim #famine #ChinuaAchebe #guerredubiafra #hubertvedrine #EmanuelMacron #BenjaminNetanjahu
cneffpaysages.blog/2025/07/27/c...
🔴 1958 "Things Fall Apart" by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe published by Heinemann - considered most widely read book in African literature
#OnThisDay
#ThisDayinHistory
#OTD
#June17
#ChinuaAchebe
Good morning #booksky!🌞
QOTD. Do you know of any literary events that happened on this day?
QOTD. Have you read any books from today's list?
#OnThisDay
#ThisDayinHistory
#OTD
#June17
#ChinuaAchebe
#Moneyball
#JackieSibbliesDrury
12 years ago (March 21, 2013) we bid #ChinuaAchebe farewell. As well as being a writer, he was a pivotal editor for AWS in the 60s/70s. A writer/editor myself, I wrote this piece in 2009 after #Achebe rejected the tag 'father' of African literature www.theguardian.com/books/booksb...
#RIP
"Güneş, diz çökenlerden önce ayakta duranların üzerinde parlar."
#ChinuaAchebe
Nijerya'lı yazar, şâir, profesör ve eleştirmenin aramızdan ayrılışının 12. yılında saygıyla..
“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
Obituary: www.theguardian.com/books/2013/m...
✒️ #ChinuaAchebe, Nigerian poet and novelist (Things Fall Apart), #DOTD 21 March 2013. #Poetry #Literature
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
18/20 #ChinuaAchebe
When Things Fall Apart
#booksky 💙📚 #bookchallenge
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BHM #Blacksky #Blackauthors #Books
"You can't put poetry in a box... It will jump out and do exactly what it wants to do." Chinua Achebe,
"You can't put poetry in a box... It will jump out and do exactly what it wants to do."
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist and poet and a Writers Institute guest in 1998.
#chinuaachebe
#ualbany
#nigerianwriters
New review of 'Chinua Achebe' by Toyin Falola ⤵️
"Readers and scholars are taken on a new journey of rediscovering what might be hitherto unknown about the master of the art of storytelling.”
💻ntm.ng/2025/02/17/reading-acheb...
#chinuaachebe #africanliterature
