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[mydearestlola]

S/O to @google for showing love to ONE OF THE GREATS! #ChinuaAchebe #FatherOfModernAfricanLiterature #ThingsFallApart #NoLongerAtEase #ManOfThePeople #ArrowOfGod #AnthillsOfTheSavannah #NaijaGriot

[hobosandtramps-blog]

Some first class amazing reads. New arrivals: Naipaul's masterpiece A House for Mr. Biswas, modern 1st edition. Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah, modern 1st edition and Wole Soyinka's The Interpreters, also 1st edition. Now up on the site in the rare books section. Link in bio. #hobosandtramps #literature #firsteditionbooks #firsteditions #andredeutsch #ahouseformrbiswas #vsnaipaul #anthillsofthesavannah #chinuaachebe #theinterpreters #wolesoyinka #rarebooks #ruralia #bookcollections #ruralguy #theruralguy #ruralchic #rurallife #ruralliving #ruralphotography #outdoor #outdoors #thegreatoutdoors #outdoorphotography #outdoorlife #outdoorliving (at Delaware County, Pennsylvania)

[happysexycool-blog-blog]

#currentSituation #ChinuaAchebe and veggie and soba noodle soup...cucumber #sushi roll #AntHillsOfTheSavannah #greatLiterature #africanLit #classicAuthor whatchu know about this?

[colossalinsight]

“Where is everybody? You have not forgotten your own market day? Come! Bring your long baskets of yams and your round baskets of cocoyams. Where are the fish women and the palm-oil women, where the high head-loads of pottery? Come, today may be your lucky day, the day you may find a blind man to trade against. You have nothing to sell? Who said so? Come! I will buy your mother’s cunt. The dogs growled as they tore him.”

-Excerpt from Anhills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe.

[colossalinsight]

“The sun in April is an enemy though the weatherman on television reciting mechanically the words of his foreign mentors tells you it will be fine all over the country. Fine! We have been slowly steamed into well-done mutton since February and all the oafs on our public payroll tell us we are doing just fine! No, my dear countrymen. This is Brigadier Misfortune of the Wilting 202 Brigade telling you you are not fine. No my dear countrymen, you will not be fine until you can overthrow the wild Sun of April. Later tonight, fellow countrymen, you will hear the full text from General Mouth himself—I am only a mouthpiece—you will hear the words direct from him after the national anthem shall have been played backwards. Until then, beloved countrymen, roast in peace.”

-Excerpt from Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe

[colossalinsight]

“I don’t find it funny, people shaking hands like this … while their neck is turned away at right angles, like that girl in The Exorcist, and grinning into the camera.”

Excerpt from Anthills of the Savannah, Chinua Achebe.