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: czcams.com/video/7v8Br8Xqah4/video.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.
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.
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!
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 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬
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!
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.
@@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 👋
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.
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.
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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 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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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
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
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.
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. 🇬🇭
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
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!
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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 !!!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You all kept me crying for days, I never believed this work could attract these multiple interest. I assure you to share the link soon, Again thank you, I love you all.
I'm doing "Things Fall Apart" for english lit and this was a really great insight onto the writers perspective of the book, great interview altogether.
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: czcams.com/video/7v8Br8Xqah4/video.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.
Glad I found this. My dad sent this to me and I am flawed with great virtuosity and awe with this giant
Thank you very much.
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Even from a young age, these people were great intellectuals
True! at the time of the interview these gentlemen were hardly 25
Listening to them I wonder how much more Africa has lost!!
Achebe, Nkosi, Soyinka. Three legends in one go
Oh the indulgence is a bit overwhelming.
Mr. Nkosi Lewis, He is a South African writer too.... The three of them are Writers, Literature Executives....
These guys are having a conversation. Notice the absence of notes and pappers to reference. Pure intelligence.
Very good observation...👍
Interesting how they said, "Negro." That was years before the adoption of the term, "African American."
@@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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Truth Seeker they don’t say African American because they weren’t African Americans
Really love this, no rivalry, no bravado, no fake accent. Just 3 intellectually sound African legends.
I thought the three legends: Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Nkosi hailed from Nigeria?
Job Okeno Nkosi is South African
Yes. Intelligent observation. And, absolutely no need for such pettiness!
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.
What a great models of literature.
African legends whose contributions to the enrichment of the English language was beyond that of an average White man.
@@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.
Awake Nigeria!!!!
We read that novel "Things Fall Apart" in the Caribbean secondary school system.
Always a reference book. The Bible of African literature and pristine culture.
It was also a setbook in Kenya at some point.
Many African countries on the General Certificate of Education aka 'O' Level Literature.
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.
Exactly, that was my set book in secondary school back in 2005. Hopefully you remember Chief Nanga and the great Odili.
@@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.
@@KG-ms3ji that is powerful.
@@KG-ms3ji great works of art have that effect.It is able to make the intangible tangible.Achebe lives on!
@@victoronuko8226 my dear we in the same boat. I also sat for my fourth form in 2005
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!
@@respjames590 Chinua AcheBEST, Foremost African Storyteller!
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But was Already recognize
@@respjames590 he didn't won it because he is telling African to tell there story and white are not buying it and not what the want to hear
The book is my Forte
Two Nigerian legends, and a south African legend. I am blessed today to see this interview.
African legends
Same here
"Okonkwo! do not participate in the killing of that boy(Ikemefuna). That boy calls you father".
- Obierika
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.
60-70% of Africans are Europeans in Black skin... Colonial mentality still messing us up.
Best comment on here. Sacrifice and responsibility is so Paramount
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
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Well said
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!
Pure knowledge
We were wishing for this kind of world regarding to the fact we can all watch , whence we can
This made life beautiful and natural at the villa disrupted by the urban setting
How horrible it is that information is more accessible
@@holdthatlforluigi sarcasm at its finest!!!!!
"He whose palm kernel was cracked by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble" Chinua Achebe
Wole Soyinka's vocabulary is top notch.
His diction is excellent, too. A most intelligent man.
Truly
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.
I am very humble and meek.
Achebe was 34 here and Soyinka 30.....ICONS and Legends.
Nkosi was 28. Legends indeed
@@Mfundo324 is Nkosi by any means a relative of yours? You must be really proud...
@@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 👋
Great men but the system they found themselves didn't allow them to explore in all ramifications.
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.
This man understands Igbo culture a lot. He used to be the chancellor of my university and there were no smartphones in those days.
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.
African social thought should be taught at all levels of education in Africa, we are in Africa yet we keep relying on western stuff
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@@vg1024 ok and your point is?
@@vg1024 this is world wide these people are trying to depopulate .
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
It's mind boggling!🤔
i am so speechless..I NEVER NEW HE WAS SO YOUNG WHEN HE WROTE THAT EVERGREEN BOOK....NIGERIAN YOUTHS WHERE HAS NIGERIA PUSHED US TODAY?
The enlightenment, the awareness of their art and craft. Soyinka's way of speaking has stayed with him till today.
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.
Deep, as a hip-hop fan, this gives me a new admiration and profound respect of Black Thought
Love this ❤️
I love that ❤
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.
True this
The idea was really set but the journey was truncated by inimical foes that conglomerated as Boko Haram in Nigeria.
Amazing, I like the way way Wole Soyinka's flexibility with his English and the vocabularies, dhis is like digging ancient gold and treasures
There were not much vocabs but well-worded expressions. Greetings
“To Achebe, who depicted so beautifully the culture that might have been mine..”
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.
Wonderful
Very true
Yes that type of interview is called the Socratic dialogue.
You are absolutely right
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!
There are no many people like you' Chinua Achebe'
May your soul continue resting in God's blossom..Amen!!
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.
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!
Started reading him while in primary school in Kenya, "Things Fall Apart" still my favorite followed by "Arrow of God"
You hear 3 of them speak & you know educated men are reasoning together.
I'm in awe of Chinua every time, currently reading arrow of God. He's every kind of writer I want to be 🙏🏾
Let's make sure we pass it to the younger generation
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
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
Honestly enjoyed listening to these these men. Three intellectuals expressing themselves through literature.
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.
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. 🇬🇭
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
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!
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.
Soyinka had a very strong command of language
Still has!
@@hassanyakubu6108 True, very true
This is gold. Our history told by us. As an African my heart swells with pride watching this interview.
When the Regions were working and harmony was in Nigeria, Great Achebe, Great Soyinka.
True federalism
general: I had trouble getting into Soyinka. He doesn't write in the style of a traditional novel. I think perhaps I was missing something.
the regions weren't peaceful sir
@@ettyobz l didn't say peaceful, working and harmony sir.
@@generalnwankwo8689 harmony can also be called peace like when u said we live in peace and harmony
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 🇺🇬
Until we liberate ourselves from neocolonialism, this can not be achieved.
@@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?
Meeting of great minds! I love the way they articulate their views with decorum, much to be learnt by our generation.
I completely agree with you view.
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.
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
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.
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
I think “In Biafra Africa Died” was written by Emefiena Ezeani.
I know the obvious big names are Achebe and Soyinka but man Lewis Nkosi is such a magnificent and talented person.❤
I was born 21st October, 1964 in Benin City, Edo State.
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 still doesn't understand why Achebe was never a Nobel laureate for literature.I believe he should have won it ahead of any other African writer.
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.
Very simple: because of his Igbo descent.
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
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.
Point of correction. The river between was works of a Kenyan author professor Ngugi Wa Thiongo.
@@charleskinyua381 Thanks brother it was "The Great Pond",
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
This interview can't go wrong!!
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
Literature students are here 🤟
"The sun shines on those standing before those kneeling" Things fall apart
THANK YOU FOR PRESERVING OUR HISTORY CULTURE.
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.
Excellent
@@AfroMarxist nothing SIMPLE
you have always made us proud blessed African
This is a very rich interview, with iconic African intellectual minds at one table. 🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦
This book is never far from me , I gift it all the time and Mr. Achebe opened me to explore more African writers!💜🗿
I red both wole soyinka book Oluma and things fall apart by chinua achebe while I was 12 years of age at my secondary school in Cameroon.
same here
Cameroonian here! I read hia two works while at age 14.
This is like drinking from the fountain of knowledge.
This is a pretentious lie
Very true
Opinions are like arseholes; everyone has one. It's easy to make a claim; substantiating it is where the work is.
This is gold! Thanks for publishing this.
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!
Agreed!
Current generation is out for luxury Life. Do you see any luxury things in these trio. Luxury and knowledge are different ball games.
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 !!!
Thanks for uploads. Things fall apart changed my life. It's first set book I had read over a span of 48hrs.
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.
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.
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.
Social media damaged a lot of great minds 😢
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.
Woke Soyinka once had black hair 😂,.. damn they were young and brilliant ❤️
This is gold. Thanks for sharing.
Loved every bit of it 😊
Thank you so much for this. Watching from South Africa
I was unaware that this channel exists. Now that I've found it - subscribed.
Power To The People!
This is amazing!! Thanks. You really did it. You earned yourself a TRUE sub!
I'm currently reading he's book "Arrow of God" for the 4th time now...on the 17th chapter. Epic!
Three great young men. Lewis was about 28, Wole was about 30, and Chinua was about 34 when this interview was done.
People don't speak English like this these days! Perfect diction, pronunciation. You almost can't tell their tribe
Just listen to Nkosi without watching.
So true!!
You are very right.
I love these guys. I read the two Nigerian books.
They were flexing, thoroughly enjoyed this discussion.
I'm reading things fall apart in my last year of college... that novel is so good ❤
Watching this and seeing them at such a young age makes me so happy
I'm so lucky to come across this interview by the intellectuals. This are the elites in our society not the corrupted politicians
I will watch and watch again........... Great interview...... Many Thanks to the publisher
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.
Who is here with me in 2021?
Here in 2024
"Things Fall Apart" is read in the U.S., at least in Texas. Not sure about other states in the Union.
Wow!! This video is a gemstone. Three African legends!!❤️
These people inculcated in me the love of literature in English.
Always coming back to listen to this discussion, pure knowledge at work with no pettiness
♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
very exciting! to hear the voice of someone whom I read his book 40years ago !! it looks like the flashback of its own !!
Pure Gold. Thanks for uploading & thanks Victor Ehikhamenor for posting the link¡!👌🏾😊
Wow, this is a revelation of who we're. I wish my upcoming work Adamma the warrior (African woman in bondage) will receive this level of attention.
Insha Allah it will, pls let's subscribe to his page to show love.
Ị can't wait to read it!
Do you have a link where we can buy it? I still prefer to read hard copy...looking forward to it
You all kept me crying for days, I never believed this work could attract these multiple interest. I assure you to share the link soon, Again thank you, I love you all.
Cant wait
Thanks for this 😘
I'm doing "Things Fall Apart" for english lit and this was a really great insight onto the writers perspective of the book, great interview altogether.
Thank you for uploading this interview.
wow i am very happy to see this, thanks a lot.
So educating. I'm opposed to people people preaching from a position of ignorance. - Chinua Achebe
Something is missing in my life as a 62 year old Igboman.The IKENGA.
Interesting. And is it too late to acquire one?
You don't buy it, its a spirutual gift from the ancesstors and this is what African American call black power
Read Quran and come to Islam that will give you answers and peace