Prof. Chinua Achebe: A hero returns 2
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- In January the this year Prof. Chinua Achebe was invited to return to his homeland for the first time in a decade to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his celebrated novel Things Fall Apart during the Ahiajoku Lecture
Achebe is a great man. It is great to know that he is still so alive and full of energy!
Igbos were defeated and marginalized by Britain using their stooge northern Nigerians.In anycase, we Igbo scholars are poised to make progress in all academic facets and we are doing it. As for Nigeria as a united entity, we believe unity comes only from equity and faily play to all, moreso when ethnic chauvunism and religious bigotry are eliminated from the country as a whole.
Igbo Kwenu!
Can't wait for the first couple of books/essays he writes when he returns to Nigeria (Africa) from the West.
amazing! thanks for this vid
2:30 "He opposes ethnic nationalism...."
Yes, we can't really afford any more ethnic nationalism...
The winner-takes-all politics is the problem.
And there is no real respect for ethnic identity so it's open to exploitation and vile manipulation.
There has to be dialogue about how to coexist under one nation. This dialogue is NEVER going to come from politicians (at least from what I see in my own country), it's time for the common man to act from grassroots level.
Part of the solution will promote the active encouragement of distinct ethnic identities. Anything that doesnt include that will seal our fate for sure.