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“The Igbo people of Southern Nigeria are more than ten million strong and must be accounted one of the major peoples of Africa. Conventional practice would call them a tribe, but I no longer follow that convention.
I call them a nation.' Here we go again!,' you might be thinking.Well, let me explain.
My Pocket Oxford Dictionary defines tribe as follows: 'group of (esp. Primitive) families or communities linked by social, religious or blood ties and usually having a common culture and dialect and a recognized leader.' If we apply the different criteria of this definition to Igbo people we will come up with the following results:a. Igbo people are not primitive; if we were I would not be offering this distinguished lecture, or would I?;b. Igbo people are not linked by blood ties; although they may share many cultural traits;c. Igbo people do not speak one dialect; they speak one language which has scores of major and minor dialects;d. And as for having one recognized leader, Igbo people would regard the absence of such a recognized leader as the very defining principle of their social and political identity.”―Chinua Achebe.
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“The Igbo nation in precolonial times was not quite like any nation most people are familiar with. It did not have the apparatus of centralized government but a conglomeration of hundreds of independent towns and villages each of which shared the running of its affairs among its menfolk according to title, age, occupation, etc.; and its women folk who had domestic responsibilities as well as the management of the scores of four-day and eight-day markets that bound the entire region and its neighbours in a network of daily exchange of goods and news, from far and near.”―Chinua Achebe.
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, the author of Things Fall Apart, the best known-and best selling-novel ever to come out of Africa. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encounters with Europe but also the dark side of contemporary African political life. Now, in Home and Exile, Achebe reveals the man behind his powerful work. Here is an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author-his own life. It is an extended snapshot of a major writer's childhood, illuminating his roots as an artist. Achebe discusses his English education and the relationship between colonial writers and the European literary tradition. He argues that if colonial writers try to imitate and, indeed, go one better than the Empire, they run the danger of undervaluing their homeland and their own people.
Achebe contends that to redress the inequities of global oppression, writers must focus on where they come from, insisting that their value systems are as legitimate as any other. Stories are a real source of power in the world, he concludes, and to imitate the literature of another culture is to give that power away.
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Home and Exile is a moving account of an exceptional life. Achebe reveals the inner workings of the human conscience through the predicament of Africa and his own intellectual life. It is a story of the triumph of mind, told in the words of one of this century's most gifted writers.