Ogbaa achebe biography

Chinua Achebe In His Own Words
On the Value & Functions of Literature and Storytelling,
Works by Chinua Achebe, Interviews with Chinua Achebe
URL of this page: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/achebe2.htm

ON THE VALUE & FUNCTIONS
OF LITERATURE AND STORY TELLING
Note: Interpretative summaries is this section are Cora Agatucci's

"...only the story...can continue beyond the war and the warrior.

It is the story that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters.

The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things Fall Apart opened the eyes of the world to a more.

The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things Fall Apart opened the eyes of the world to a more.

"This is a very intimate biography of Nigeria's most famous novelist.

This new book is a tour de force on the life, times and works of Chinua Achebe Dr. Ogbaa has delivered a work that is rich in what C.W. Mills termed The Sociological Imagination by tying the biography of the famous author and his influential works to the major public issues of his troubled times.

The book weaves together the story of Chinua Achebe, a young Igboman whose novel Things Fall Apart opened the eyes of the world to a more realistic image of.

Author: Kalu Ogbaa ISBN Publisher: Routledge ISBN Used-like N: The book pretty much look like a new book.

It is the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars
into the spikes of the cactus fence.
The story is our escort; without it, we are blind.
Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story;
rather it is the story that owns us and directs us.
--Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (1987)

From "What Has Literature Got to Do with It," collected in Hopes and Impediments(1988):

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