Chinua Achebe Reads from Things Fall Apart - PEN America

[@fridayrwamahe1309]

you are not dead! your ideas will live millions and and millions of years on this planet earth.

[@paulsunday2656]

I love you Sir even in death, may your soul rest in peace.

[@aidahabdghani3173]

RIP Chinua Achebe.Excellent contribution to the world.I'm still using your text (Things Fall Apart) in my classroom.

[@KhorshedAlammd]

things fall apart is so nice novel which is introduce us with the law and the history of African social life. I m also read many novel but Chinua Achebe is so nice novel in my eyes , I think god give him extra witty for write this novel .

[@deborahpenney5138]

This is from chapter 14 of Things Fall Apart if you wanted to read along! Love hearing his voice.

[@4evanigachukwu676]

A great writer. Our African Shakespeare. Your book will ever be read. RIP sir

[@paballomaureenmalimabe1670]

Read the novel in high school..... My first encounter with African literature, Great mind, Great read! As a South African decent it gave me a broader spectrum of African people, I could relate and was eager to learn more about Nigerian clans.

[@NonsoOkoye-pe4rf]

Its not Nigerian clan rather IGBO tribe ..

[@zleverton]

Absolutely perfect. A thoughtful and erudite soul.

[@generalnwankwo8689]

Susan Brown the Supreme court and Achebe the lower court, he was not just a writer per excellence but HUMBLE.

[@patienceokwonna2133]

Awesome novel. We missed you sir. Continue to Rest In Peace.

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As learners of literature in Hope Senior School,we have understood the book well because of that audio you have for the literature students in the world.Thank you very much for your help.Namuyomba Perina,S.4 in Uganda Mpigi.

[@ericpavlat5121]

For those interested, the excerpt he reads is the second half of Ch. 14.

[@samueljonjo6391]

I have read Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and many other writers: European, American and other African writers. But in my mind after the Bible and Shakespeare, Chinua Achebe's two novels 'THINGS FALL APART' and 'NO LONGER AT EASE' rank foremost. That is, assuming we evaluate arts for arts sake from a general universal human perspective. Otherwise as Africans writing the African narrative, and not some jaundiced version of the African experience, Chinua Achebe for me comes tops. GOD bless & RIP.

[@sabadabdiodowa8539]

Bible, you miss the plot brother. It is all about the invasion of the African culture.

[@royalty15able]

Sabad Abdi odowa yes precisely the point

[@michaeloriala3873]

Very solemn passage indeed. Classic book. Igbo, a great tribe!

[@queenwifemomdaughter2970]

Thank you for posting! This sounds so much better in his voice than mine!!

[@maziochendu5258]

Nnayi Chinua Achebe reads his own book beautifully. I remember reading some of his other books "No longer at ease" , "Anthills of the Savannah" , "There was a country" Excellent writer and story teller.

[@weirialbaluang8097]

Africa loves you, Chinua Achebe

[@grahamturner1290]

Amazing coincidence: I was jusr rereading this exact passage from the novel. Wonderful.

[@jeniferkpundeh8679]

RIP Sir. I love your novel. Things fall apart!!! @ jss 3

[@donatusobi4612]

Listen to his voice as he reads you see literature, what a literary Legend he was.

[@mexy230]

May the soul of the mighty pen extraordinaire of African literature rest in peace!

[@ikappiah976]

Greatest African novelist. Prof. Achebe.

[@diodoro73]

RIP. Professor Achebe

[@onwegideonifeanyi163]

Your legacies are evergreen A true son of the Igbos, We are proud of you.

[@happyngulube1871]

Truly one of the greatest! 😊

[@helengood916]

Rest In Peace.You live forever in our hearts.

[@clintonokore8264]

African Shakespeare, we will forever celebrate you

[@KingsleyNwadiaru]

My brother may your soul continue to rest in peace

[@gabrielmgbemena8490]

Soul is eternal. You are soul, therefore you live eternally. May you do what you know best how to do in the higher realms of existence.

[@johnndiyo9131]

Sir achebe..........we all love you

[@chriswangombe8819]

Nneka, Mother is supreme.

[@himachalwaliswagger790]

My fav novel now - Things fall apart

[@christopherchidubem5240]

I have read the book again.

[@pascalhenry8677]

Igbo's are great tribe!!!

[@ifeoma_amaechi]

History.

[@sandrataderera4487]

Salute👏

[@slajaa]

MAy u rest in perfect peace big brother and father...Ina Jah rastafari

[@oscarokoronkwo2277]

rip nna anyi

[@denisgitonga4111]

I can I access this book online,, anyone with a link

[@somuchdollah]

www.pdfdrive.com/things-fall-apart-chinua-achebe-books.html

[@ckwheelsck2852]

For whom is it well? There's no one

[@Marronnages]

Tout commence dans un monde régi par ses lois propres, ses rites, ses coutumes. Un monde où l'équilibre du clan repose sur le respect des codes ancestraux sous peine de lourds châtiments. Okonkwo incarne ce monde. Inflexible, il s'élèvera dans la société Ibo d'Umuofia (Sud-Est du Nigeria) par la force de ses mains, essuyant l'affront d'un père paresseux et indigne. « Possédé » par l'échec du père humiliant, il s'est construit sur cette base : se surpasser pour ne pas lui ressembler. Parti de rien, il deviendra un riche fermier à la tête de trois épouses et de huit enfants, jouissant d'une renommée puissante. Mais lui en tant que père, parviendra-t-il à faire respecter la transmission de ces lois invariables ? Sont-elles toutes justes, aux yeux de son fils aîné Nwoye ? Ne sera-t-il pas victime de ses ambitions démesurées ? Cet homme qui s'est battu pour se faire une place au sein de son clan va cependant devoir traverser à nouveau de rudes épreuves, comme son déclassement et son exil dus à un incident tragique. Mais il reviendra lavé de sa faute et ayant à nouveau gravi les échelons. (Lire la suite sur www.marronnages.com/?p=1658)

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