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Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe2 comments

zawan wrote 5 days ago: Chinua Achebe’s classic novel, Things Fall Apart, is set in the village Umuofia in Nigeria. It is a … more →

Tags: Book Review, Books, Africa, African literature, Chinua Achebe, Classics, Literature, Nigeria

Chimamanda!1 comment

studio360blog wrote 1 week ago: Remember Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie? Kurt sat down with the up-and-coming Nigerian writer last Decembe … more →

Tags: Books, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe, shivering, the thing around your neck

Summer Reading, Grades 6-12

Jennifer Cerbasi wrote 1 week ago: As the summer begins, most children are looking forward to days spent at summer camp, playing basket … more →

Tags: America's Tutor, a clockwork orange, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Wrinkle in Time, And The Wardrobe, Anne of Green Gables, Brave New World, Bridge to Terabithia, Great Expectations

Library of Irony

Mysty Vander wrote 1 month ago: and the walls are plastered with posters; Literary Gods are praised through lamenated sheets of colo … more →

Tags: Thots, Aldous Huxley, Ironic, Irony, Librar*, Library, Posters, great literacy, Literacy

Yeats' Inspiration

verbage wrote 1 month ago: It is so strange that I always find this poem fascinating. Ripe with symbolism, it seems to speak of … more →

Tags: Poetry

From The Bookshelf: Part 4

Tieffa Harper wrote 2 months ago: Who knows if I’ll actually have time to get to the rest of my list this summer (though I inhal … more →

Tags: Books, Dexter, Junot Diaz, Things Fall Apart Chinu Achebe, Chinu Achebe, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay, Alexander MCall Smith, No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

On Second Thought...

pooglespeak wrote 2 months ago: You never notice you have a problem at first, do you? As good as we are at immediately being able to … more →

Tags: drugs, Depression, Bad Decisions, Denial, it's okay to change your mind, Bitterness

Fate and Destiny

writergooddoer wrote 3 months ago: Mandinka People in Gambia     The Epic of Sundiata is meaningless without the concepts of fate and … more →

Tags: Literature, English Literature, Gospel, Women's rights, Poetry, American Literature, Novels, achebe, epic of sundiata

leaning into the sharp points

Lola wrote 3 months ago: I posted this on my Facebook notes and a friend asked me if  I had a blog, or just wrote to FB. It … more →

Tags: Life, Awareness, Buddhism, change, chodron, Eternal Now, meditation, Mindfullness

A Blank Page for African Theatre2 comments

Anne Manyara wrote 3 months ago: (This article appeared in the Sunday Nation on 21st March 2009) We would all like to see true Africa … more →

Tags: Reflections, Chinua Achebe, egwugwu, Okonkwo, ekwefi, wole soyinka, Aristotle, Poetics, Bharata Muni

Economic alchemy1 comment

Mark Gisleson wrote 3 months ago: This from the WaPost, but it nicely captures the financial zeitgeist. Dionne is on target with a co … more →

Tags: capitalism, Economy, Bailout, recession, Depression, meltdown, shit hitting the fan, narcissism, Corporate Culture

"Don't see me from a distance."

Alex T. wrote 4 months ago: (from biblio.org)  The back cover of my edition of Things Fall Apart explains that the novel is ofte … more →

Tags: Who is the Native?, Literature, achebe, Africa, Books

Chinua Achebe

Librarian wrote 4 months ago: Chinua Achebe Born in 1930, Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe is probably … more →

Tags: Author of the Week, Chinua Achebe, Home and exile, rrow of God

Things fall apart2 comments

John Ryan Recabar wrote 4 months ago: We’ve been together for almost two years this March. Everything seems to be doing well, I thou … more →

Tags: Youth Concerns, Personal reflection, Commentaries, Reflections, Places and People, Random Experiences, musings, writing, Blogging

True wealth

Cheryl wrote 4 months ago: Excerpt from Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart “We do not pray to have more money but to … more →

Tags: Daily, Chinua Achebe, Wealth

Your Wednesday Night Dystopian Poetry

DP wrote 5 months ago: THE SECOND COMING Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Thin … more →

Tags: Poetry, Chinua Achebe, Joan Didion, robert parker, Slouching Toward Bethlehem, The Second Coming, the widening gyre, William Butler Yeats

The Year Was 19994 comments

vegasworldone wrote 5 months ago: On my first thought I wouldn’t of told you that 1999 was a great year for hip-hop. Now that I … more →

Tags: hip-hop, Music, Arts, Culture, Politics, NAS, Jay-Z, 2001, 1999

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe8 comments

Sarah wrote 6 months ago: Having read the back cover, it was obvious that this was going to be a book concerned with the evils … more →

Tags: Review, Contemporary, Chinua Achebe

Have Things Really Fallen in Place?

feathersproject wrote 6 months ago: Nwachukwu Egbunike Although Things Fall Apart was published in 1958 at the threshold of Nigerian in … more →

Tags: General, Chinua Achebe, igbo of south east nigeria, ndigbo, tradition, mordernity


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