Hey everyone, my favourite youtube channel @booksbyleynes did an excellent book review for the "The African Trilogy" by Chinua Achebe you can check it out here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7v8Br8Xqah4.html
I wholeheartedly recommend these books to everyone! With regard to length and style, they are very digestible and pleasant, even deceptively so; you will be surprised at the scope of their historical and literary content.
@@truthseeker906 the name for Black people in America has changed throughout the centuries. Although I think African American is the most accurate refinement of our ethnic description.
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There's absolutely no need to be judgemental about people's accents. Chimamanda is an igbo woman and a modern day writer. She doesn't speak English like the average igbo person with very strong accents who doesn't have a similar literary and educational background. It is not uncommon for a German international who lives and works for decades in an English speaking nation to speak the language indistinguishably from a native speaker. Even Americans polish their southern accent depending on their profession. British people who live in America eventually "lose" their accent. The way a person speaks, just like dress, is often an indicator of one's socioeconomic status. You don't see supreme court judges with tattoos on their necks, piercings on their bodies and baggy shorts. Of course I'm not talking about Igwe Tupac's "naaaamean? naamsaying?" accent.
@@bayekofsiwa365 nobody is condemning anybody for having an accent. The problem is forcing a fake accent to fit in. An accent like you said can tell a lot about a person and there is no need to hide it.
Things fall Apart is arguably the greatest African literature work ever. Achebe was a man way ahead of his time. I keep asking myself how could God have blessed this country with the likes of Achebe and Soyinka as far back as 1960's and yet in 2020 we are coping with a leader who can hardly read one sentence without a mistake, Nigerian's clock is running backward.
My brother, I am feeling the way you feel. Now, we have the most dumbbell as head of Nigerian government, hausa-fulani nama, nama as head of great Nigeria! No wonder the country is so corrupt.
@@stephenmwale252 am a Kenyan citizen, this men were beyond special. Just brilliant. A Man of The People was my set book way back in 2005. Africa we are so blessed.
Read his books in literature classes in 1980's secondary education. In fact I have a copy of "Things Fall Apart" I read it again and again! Cheers from Tanzania.
Oliver Mashaguri, I think Chinua's Things Fall Apart has had a profound influence on me! The plot is fascinating with life-like characters. Achebe was an extremely talented novelist. Unfortunately he didn't win a Nobel Prize!
@@chineduokigbo5010 No, it's same surname but I feel like he's my older uncle. I've followed his work. I'm impressed by how they rose to the occasion despite the challenges. Thanks brother 👋
The first novel I read of Achebe was 'The man of the people'. Even as a Nepali, a world apart from Nigeria, it was astonishing how much I could relate to the characters. One of my favourite writers.
@@victoronuko8226 i read it when I was 14. I am 28 now. I am a bit hazy on the details but I distinctly remember how it made me feel. And how it made me feel so connected to a country and its people who I would never meet or visit. Sign of a great writer. P.S. i made a few Nigerian friends when I lived in Europe. Wonderful people and wonderful mates.
When there was no Google, when there was no social media; you had to read vastly, you had to go around, physically, to get materials for whatever your target is. Intelligence!
What we lack now in our today African societies are patriots. People who understand that the image of their society has to be protected at all time and at all cost. People that are willing and able to make the required sacrifice. Listening to Mr. Achebe narrating why he decided to turn down his studies in Medicine to pursue literature says it all. He understood that no one can tell our stories better than us who live it. The fact that Mr. Johnson wrote a book about the Nigerian society in which he did not have first-hand experience in, was enough to make Mr. Achebe mad, and to him, that needed to be challenged. That's pure patriotism. Until the African child understands that we as individuals are Africa, and we need to strive in anyway possible to lift our individual image, others will keep telling our stories without living in our skins.
Well yeah that's what you get after being suppressed for so long, no one remembers the things in the past that most cultures look to for pride and reassurance.
What will annoy most is that moment when an African child is asked about his/her idea of colonization, and he or she would prefer to be Recolonized!!! The current generation has a hard task to Tame Tomorrow, otherwise all will end in tears again. The good thing is, we are fortunate that some people started it Long Time ago! All we need to do, is to better it and make it more active and more Practice, and it starts with Me! Hail Africa Hail Motherland 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬
Achebe, a soft spoken being with powerful writing spirit. You won't believe that this guy speaking so light, depicted a lion in his book "Things Fall Apart" and represent African prophet through books. Kudos legend. I dream to writing like you.
These are literary gurus virtually in their prime. If you think back, you’ll be astounded about the physical and mental energy bubbling in youth between the ages of 18 to 40. It’s unbelievable the energy and confidence exuded at that period. And that’s why it’s painful to see our youth wast in Africa, especially Nigeria.
@obinnaokoro6619 good diction or vocabulary in English language does not Qualify a human being as intelligent, maybe intellectual, English like any other language is a language. pronunciation of the English words is not a measure of human intelligence because language is a conspiracy between people, and literacy in any language is not a qualification for intelligence, A person might not be good in their vocabulary or diction in spoken English language but very intelligent as a human being in their own native tongue.
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Speak for yourself, in my country the set books we read in high school are all African literature,here in kenya.in my day we read a man of the people and things fall apart
I read the book in Matric, final class in high school here in South Africa. I loved the book, the sad part about "Inkemefuna", I was sad! Yet I enjoyed the book. This ancestor is my hero. Rest in peace, son of the soil. You made us proud.
Okonkwo was known throughout the 9 villages and beyond. As a young man he had brought fame to his village by throwing Amalinze the CAT. Amalinze was a great wrestler whose back could never touch the ground....... RIP Chinua Achebe.
Pure gold. This was age of innocence, pure heart. These were great men even at such a young age. What a shame that their ideas didn't shape our journey as a nature.
I first learned of Mr Achebe from the rapper Black Thought. He and his band “The Roots” named one of thier LP’s “Things Fall Apart”. Black Thought also mentions Mr Achebe in a verse. Curiosity lead to me doing research and ultimately coming across his literature. I’m thankful to have come across his work.
And this was how many Greek Philosophers brought into reasoning and realism, the ideologises of human socialism; by interviewing themselves, and eating of each other's wisdom.
The Ancient Greeks followed the wisdom of the Ancient Africans! Yet they still got SICK on the delusions of white male supremacy, falling in obsession with their own beauty, youth, knowledge and masculinity...a sickness that developed a vicious misogyny and sadistic narcissism with a putrid sexual incestuous deviant compulsion used as WARFARE and as a lawless pleasure for the ELITE that still permeates the dominate insanity of euro-colonization and the evil of anti-blackness and anti-goodness, infusing human socialism with a level of terrorism and ETERNAL SUFFERING within a punitive racist cowardly male-dominated society in the cyclical quest to dominate the world in a maniacal self-centeredness that keeps re-creating atrocious and cruel caste systems, with so little understanding of inter-connectedness and EQUITY...As an Igbo-TsaLaGi Indigenous American, and a 2Spirit Elder, which places me in the company of contemporary Indigenous American Philosophers, I have personally suffered much based on systems built from the foundation of Greek myths as a corruption of Ancient African teachings here in my euro-colonized country. The Indigenous Tribal leaders of Turtle Island ( euro-colonized America/Canada/Mexico) were able to evolve out of such a trap of the male ego and the extreme VIOLENCE and constant WARmongering that comes from male supremacy ideation. The concept of our Indigenous American Democracy practiced by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy established August 31, 1142 was able to confront the tendency of sadistic misogynistic narcissism that develops from male supremacy ideation that has plagued human societies throughout our history on this Planet, especially among the Ancient Greek males who eventually were subjugated under the Ancient Roman males possessed by the same violent cycle of insanity and violent sadistic male dominant imbalances. The Great Peacemaker of our Nation achieved the highest level of results from male Philosophers bringing in reasoning, realism, and ideologies of human socialism...the Indigenous Haudenosaunee Nation Leaders did also indeed interview themselves and ate of each other's wisdoms, but the Peacemaker was WISE enough to KNOW that they needed FEMININE wisdom in order to balance the male ideology! This created a "Golden Era" of the POWER of PEACE and the success of a United Nations with the seeds planted by the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and their 6 Nations that informed our Declaration of Independence and our United States Constitution. When contemporary male Philosophers understand the NEED for female/2Spirit Philosophers to BALANCE what is fed into human societies, we will be able to finally BUILD on the miraculous event of this Country that happened during what is regarded by the euro-centric Julian calendar as the 12th century, under an agreement among Nations to form an EQUITABLE self-governed human society based on the POWER of PEACE, a society that STILL STANDS in EVIDENCE of it's success...in GREAT contrast to the Ancient Greek concept of democracy developed as a failed male caste system of privilege and domination that America is STILL trying to maintain...a system that FAILS over and over and over again in history...with each VIOLENT male supremacy empire subjugating the NEXT violent male supremacy empire... it's TIME to include BLACK FEMINISM into the discourse of contemporary Philosophy! Black feminists are able to KEEP what is GREAT about African Philosophy, Greek Philosophy etc, while UPLIFTING the DIVINE Feminine aspects to BALANCE and bring EQUITY forward for ALL to enjoy since we have the capacity for REPARATIONS, RESTITUTION, and JUSTICE for ALL...avoiding the entrapment of the single-mindedness of male FORCE and the male EGO that gets STUCK in self aggrandizement once their is a taste of what feels like POWER and MIGHT. To the FUTURE of humanity! Ase! A'ho!
15:22: "The reason why my third book goes back, again, to the past -- not as remote as the first -- is that, I have come to think that my first book is no longer adequate; I've learnt a lot more about these particular people -- my ancestors." -- Chinua Achebe
This is where I cower, at the face of ultimate intelligence. Thank you all for making my childhood, for conferring on me literary reasoning and the gift of imagery. Thank you so much. #Legends
Thank God for you tube for preserving this kind of inestimable historic record. Seeing three great Africans interacting together at intellectual level was inspiring. What we have today is unnecessary rivalry of mediocres. Achebe even look like a typical rural boy from the Northern Nigeria
YES!!! Just to hear him speak here as a young man, he shines brighter than his 2 brilliant colleagues! He has a SPIRIT that resists the corruption of euro-colonization and an intelligence that has a capacity to RISE ABOVE nonsense, ignorance, and self-aggrandizement. Chinua Achebe is CLEARLY a beacon for humanity using literature as his tool. His investigation of Ancient and contemporary practices among male characters is FULL of enlightenment and self inquiry that brings about EVOLUTION for all of humanity within a single story well told. This is perhaps too far ahead for even the Nobel Laureate Committee members who do the selections. We are dependent on Swedish learned societies and, in the case of the peace prize, by the Norwegian Parliament for such!
@@BlackIndians-dv1iyNo he doesn’t sound brighter than them(even his rather rugged accent aside). They were reviewing chinua’s own works so it would seem like they deferred to him a bit.
Imagine pitting such great African writers for the glitz of on an European prize. Crab mentality at its finest. Achebe was a great writer because of his work, Nobel prize or not.
@user-no4qp2fv5w rubbish talk. Inferiority complex. Everything is always about your tribe . Achebe may be an interesting writer but he does not meet the criteria to be nominated. To be a Laurette in Literature, you must be all round in literature not just aboit writing story books . So you can go to hell with your tribal mentality
Chinua Achebe is an absolute Legend. It is with great insight that he uses to portray his characters, he brings them so near that you feel you were actually present in the narratives. 🇬🇭
Chinua Achebe is my hero, any time any day. May God continue to grant his heroic soul eternal rest in Heaven. I will always be his fan. His generation were outstanding. They are a generation with mission and matching passion. They knew their mission and they set about it with passion and dedication; with great faithfulness, fruitfulness and great simplicity.
This right here is the stuff of legend.See how the 3 of them sat, speaking without knowing they were charting a course for Africa, without knowing that conversation would bekm ageless, historic!That Achebe created TFA, his 1ST novel & masterpiece as a 1ST 'draft' is astounding.Absolute genius!
I feel sad that we can hardly find 3 young men who can carry out such degree of intelligent conversation with no scripts whatsoever nowadays. Social media stole our ability to imagine.
He is the only author i have come across who was honest to his writing.I believe he’s gifted.all of his books are masterpiece.i wish he could have written more books.
The time of this interview.I noted because i was born in nov 1963 in Kenya ,by then almost learning to walk touching the wall. My dad was an educator and talked alot about African intellectuals in Makerere univ Uganda to those in Ibadan. I loved reading Chinua's work especially for the language reasons which i can now understand from the horses mouth.Be encouraged.
I have read the "Things Fall Apart" novel, and it was a wonderful journey all along. I did discover many things that we share in culture with our neighbors of the south (I'm Moroccan). No human being should be treated as second class, it is the duty of African intellectuals to promote a counter-ideology and expose the baised logica and moral rationale of colonialism
Things Fall Apart...the greatest novel ever written! One of our literature books in secondary school. Loved it then, love it even more now. RIP Mr. Achebe.
We have such intelligent people on the continent so why can’t we use our intelligence and do the right thing which is unite as a single country? Respect from Uganda 🇺🇬
@@evansquarteyhammond4048 I think that's just a cop out. There are aspects of African culture that prevent us from ascending. Look at the industrialised nations today and you see common elements of character and manner which are not inherent in some African societies. Attention to detail, impartial justice (or as close to it as humanly possible), drive for efficiency, willingness to sacrifice the past ways of doing things if a better way is found today, respect but not worship of the past, focus on merit, etc. We always want to blame colonialism for everything and fail to look inwards. Do you think the Renaissance could have taken place in Africa (especially Black Africa), where children are taught to be silent since their opinions can't be better than their elders?
There were many fathers of literature in Igbo land. But Achebe was more creative. A man who literally had an idea what was to come even though there wasn't many research tools unlike nowadays. He stood firm in the faces of political critics and economic challenges. He said it "in Biafra Africa died". He saw what many couldn't see. Biafra freedom would have had a very positive impact on the way white People see Africa . Sadly Nigeria is a country that hate to see progress. They tried their best to bury history so our people will remain in captive. Indeed "in Biafra Africa died". Continue RIP Achebe
How I loved this. Lovely conversation between great minds who would become legends of the art. I had no idea we had this kind of treasure housed somewhere.
Wow wow! I am African and I read His novel ‘Things fall apart’ and I totally loved his way of writing. I can read it again and again. Then my other favorite was ‘The River Between’ by Ngogi wa Thiongo from Kenya. I didn’t do literature but loved these men’s way of writing.
I love this Man chinua Achebe. I don't find any critical writers today as we talk. Chinua warned us indeed on how we became colonized mentally and physically. Right now our young man don't even know whether we are still colonized or free because they think being on internet and talk whatever they think it's right it's is freedom. Chinua is an intelligent and wise. Don't forget Soyinka and every writer of their time
Bless you for posting this rare footage of such an event! I get to listen to a young Chinua Achebe interviewed among Classic Art from the Ancient Tribes of what is now called Nigeria as he is interviewed by a young Wole Soyinka and Lewis Nkosi!! He was enabled by the questions to not only speak on his novels, but also to connect with and speak of his African American contemporary writers (he met with Langston Hughes in America before he passed in 1967!) as well as his European contemporary writers. What a TREASURE! I am STUNNED by Chinua Achebe's brilliance. His intelligence reminds me of James Baldwin in his ability to resist the blindness and stockholm syndrome of euro-colonization despite being a scholar from high western education with an incredible command of the English language. Chinua Achebe's replies to questions filled with the ignorance of the white male gaze is so fascinating to observe. He is able to answer logically without falling into the trap of lowering his truth, process, intent and talent to the criticism and boxes of euro-colonized separatist demeaning, black emasculating and competitive mind set. His inquiries are revolutionary. Chinua Achebe is able to question the male mind and male role from Ancient traditions to contemporary, with such confidence, thus UPLIFTING us all with the COURAGE to employ critical thinking skills while embracing our own brilliant culture and heritage. What LOVE he has for his Igbo People, yet he is fearless in his investigation of failure and weakness among our People from his own experience and expertise. BRILLIANT! He IS a human REVOLUTIONARY with such Grace and Respect. Ase! A'ho!
The best novel writer in Africa. I read three of his books in secondary school Things fall apart, The Great Pond and A man of the people. It reminds me of characters such as Ikemefuna, Okonkwo, Uchendu, Obierika, Nwoye, Chief Nanga, Edina etc.
who else noticed that this interview was conducted without any script whatsoever and yet the most constructive questions was asked in a logical and well framed manner ever.
Members of the Nigerian golden age. Young men in their twenties . They were not yet professors but the knowledge oozing out of them was mesmerising. Respect !!!
Odili Ujubuonu, Indeed. Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka in the same interview many eons ago, is truly remarkable! How I wish the current generation could have an opportunity to watch such a video!
Credence, competence, confidence. These are the kind of men who can go toe to toe with anyone and not back down. They put in the work and know their worth. For those who have come after them, listen and learn. Thank you Chinua. Thank you Lewis. Thank you Wole.
Am an Igbo man with 2 young teenagers "Things Fall Apart" will be my summer gift to them. I read it when I was in high school and watched the TV series by NTA in Nigeria. Pete Edochie played Okonkwo.
I love Chenua Achebe and his great Literature books. My Favorite book of Chenua Achebe was "Things Fall Apart" this man is a man of Wisdom and I will never forget the great stories I have read in his books.. Thank you Sir
It revealed to me how and what we were before colonization. Why we fall to colonization. We had lots of things we deemed evil that the church unveiled to us that made the poor woman that had lost several twin children and the outcasts of the society to become the first converts. We are still buried in those woes.
I'm trying to read again Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" ever since I last did so in university over twelve years ago. Thanks for the suggestion.I've always heard of Soyinka since childhood, so I'm surprised to find out he's apparently still alive.
