THIS GREAT 2018

Now we are here in 2018, we are grateful to be alive. Here is two quotes from Chinua Achebe a great novelist from Nigeria.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
Arrow of God (1988)

For an African writing in English is not without its serious setbacks. He often finds himself describing situations or modes of thought which have no direct equivalent in the English way of life. Caught in that situation he can do one of two things. He can try and contain what he wants to say within the limits of conventional English or he can try to push back those limits to accommodate his ideas … I submit that those who can do the work of extending the frontiers of English so as to accommodate African thought-patterns must do it through their mastery of English and not out of innocence.
Quoted by Kalu Ogbaa, Understanding Things Fall Apart (1999), Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-0-313-30294-7