Chinua Achebe
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Sep 20, 2026
Milton AllimadiGUEST
I'm glad you brought that up because I also have a chapter dealing with that.
Milton AllimadiGUEST
Because as you know, Achebe, Chinua Achebe was one of the leading advocates for Biafra's independence and wrote a lot of, there you go, a lot about it.
Milton AllimadiGUEST
He wrote a very prominent piece in the Sunday Times over the United Kingdom.
Milton AllimadiGUEST
And that really highlighted and brought more global attention to the war.
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Adesoji IginlaHOST
And so the actors in those massacres, pogroms, what have you, are still walking the earth.
Milton AllimadiGUEST
Right.
Milton AllimadiGUEST
And Achebe put it in that essay in the Sunday Times.
Milton AllimadiGUEST
He said, what an odd alliance.
Tariq NafiCORRESPONDENT
None were more influential than Heinemann's African Writers series, launched in 1962.
Tariq NafiCORRESPONDENT
With its distinctive orange covers, it introduced readers across Africa and around the world to writers like Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o and Buchi Amacheta, becoming the defining home for modern African literature.
Tariq NafiCORRESPONDENT
But the series also reflected the realities of its time.
Tariq NafiCORRESPONDENT
Editorial, distribution and marketing decisions remained firmly in the hands of Europeans.
Raj DevGUEST
Does that make sense as a view? My goodness, yeah.
Raj DevGUEST
So Francis Fukuyama's concept is actually relevant with... a book my daughter is reading, and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.
Raj DevGUEST
And looking at the nodding, you're both familiar with that.
Raj DevGUEST
And looking at the nodding, you...
Raj DevGUEST
You are probably also familiar with the dialectic involved in the book with the high-trust, low-kinship society of the Brits in Nigeria, and then the low-trust, high-kinship society of the, well, Chinua Achebe is Igbo, but the Nigerians with all of their tracts, right? And so that's one of the constantly running themes through the book.
Raj DevGUEST
And I was talking to my daughter about that, my daughter Asha about that.
Raj DevGUEST
And so as you started to talk about that, that's the first thing that popped up in my head is actually having that come alive and be a constant source of tension in that book.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
Yesterday, there was a fundamental statement issued by the African Studies Association [smacks lips] on the cancellation of the, the passports, and they issued a very, very strong statement against the Zambian government.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
And, um, [smacks lips] you know, uh, th-this association is headed by Chinua Achebe's daughter.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
She's a professor at a university here.
Emmanuel MwambaHOST
And they issued a very, very strong statement in defense of Sishoia and in defense of all of us whose passports were canceled.
speaker_0HOST
So what happens when the external world doesn't just ask for your loyalty but demands the total surrender of your identity?
speaker_1HOST
That is the terrifying reality Chinua Achebe explores in his monumental 1958 novel, Things Fall Apart.
speaker_0HOST
This one is just so powerful.
speaker_1HOST
It really is.
Kelechi OkaforHOST
And it's called After Chapter and it takes place every month.
Kelechi OkaforHOST
So the next, um, iteration of After Chapter Literary Salon will be Tuesday 13th of October and the book we will be looking at is Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart.
Kelechi OkaforHOST
So before you come, you need to have read it.
Kelechi OkaforHOST
Now, you're like, "Kelechi, how do we sign up?" [laughs] I don't know.
Yvonne Chioma MbanefoHOST
Orga after orga hands a folded pouch to a boy who had earned it and calls it complete.
Yvonne Chioma MbanefoHOST
Chinua Achebe, writing in 1975, traced this same principle in Igbo Chi.
Yvonne Chioma MbanefoHOST
Agreement is not passive.
Yvonne Chioma MbanefoHOST
It is the one power a man holds even against destiny itself.
Letlhogonolo MokgoroaneHOST
Which writers from this lineage do you measure yourself against? And who knew should we be reading?
I.O. EcheruoGUEST
So by far, the most influential Nigerian writer for me is Chinua Achebe.
I.O. EcheruoGUEST
His Arrow of God, I believe, is his best work, and it's the work at which I reference everything I write.
I.O. EcheruoGUEST
Um, so that's the all time, uh, great, uh, for me, uh, with respect to, uh, Nigerian writers, I believe there's a number of very good Nigerian writers who are writing in, in various, uh, styles, uh, with, you know, various concepts.
Yvonne Chioma MbanefoHOST
Auga after auga hands a folded pouch to a boy who had earned it and calls it complete.
Yvonne Chioma MbanefoHOST
Chinua Achebe, writing in 1975, traced this same principle in Ibuchi.
Yvonne Chioma MbanefoHOST
Agreement is not passive.
Yvonne Chioma MbanefoHOST
It is the one power a man holds even against destiny itself.
Namwali SerpellGUEST
So after her time at Cornell, she moves to New York, she's working as an editor and she's editing, for example, the first anthology of African literature, modern African literature.
Namwali SerpellGUEST
And she's reading all of these works by Bessie Head and Chinua Achebe and Ngoki Wationgo at the time.
Namwali SerpellGUEST
And I think she's seeing, she says in one interview that the chorus function in Greek tragedy, she sees as connected to the African folktale.
Namwali SerpellGUEST
So she's drawing these connections also cross-culturally as ways, I think, again, it's that there's a polyphony to her prose style, but I also point out there's a real connection admixture, syncretism of different cultural forms in her style.
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