Worlds Famous Novelist Chinua Achebe Speech on why Africa Has to Tell its Own Stories

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Worlds Famous Novelist Chinua Achebe Speech on why Africa Has to Tell its Own Stories
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@africaiswatching 3 жыл бұрын

He is a legend

@blackstarmedia1410 3 жыл бұрын

Nigerias greatest author. I grew up reading his works. A truly gifted man.

@mikeymushi 3 жыл бұрын

This is so so true I could cry

@willpower688 3 жыл бұрын

Telling you bro

@mohamedsaid3266 3 жыл бұрын

Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart was my first English book I read .Will always remember him . He is one of Africa’s giants .

@auntyayosstories2861 3 жыл бұрын

My hero in African literature! 'the 'strong' must listen to the 'weak'

@diemmarley1217 3 жыл бұрын

Things fall apart is still one of fav book. Long live okonkwo

@SP.4 3 жыл бұрын

Shy from Philly 🌺 B#1 Family 👋🏽 He is telling facts about how our enemies try to portray our beautiful African people‼ He was so intelligent to change the narrative with education and speaking the truth❣

@Vydez254 2 жыл бұрын

😄 in my country, when someone says "in his book Chinua Achebe says".. you stop whatever you are doing and listen.

@summerbrooks9922 3 жыл бұрын

I love Chinua Achebe. Also he remains very handsome. He stays important for all to listen to, white or black or other.

@thatweirdnigerianguy 2 жыл бұрын

He passed away some years ago actually.

@joramgatsimbanyi5969 3 жыл бұрын

Love from Rwanda...

@jeromemorvan7092 3 жыл бұрын

The novel "Things Fall Apart" by Mr.Achebe had greatly influenced me. The part where the white man said why do you worship a tree. And the African said we do not worship trees but see the Creator in the tree. Same as you speak and you speak on the behalf of your Great White Father The King of England. I am paraphrasing here ,but the statement was to that effect. Shalom.

@bevnedd8746 3 жыл бұрын

What an inspirational, interlectural and gifted man. This is the sort of author whose books should be on the school curriculum.

@bebetter2082 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite is things fall apart

@atambwalisametana7148 3 жыл бұрын

Have you also read "The crocodile man"? A lesser known story of deception and greed.

@taurus3alexis 3 жыл бұрын

As American, I want to learn the history of these African countries from people who are still rooted there, and not from a colonizers book. I learned so much false history from the descendants of those who put my ancestors in chains and dragged to an already occupied “new world”. Thank you for everything that you are doing sir.

@francisebube6446 3 жыл бұрын

He is late.. But one of his most popular works is the book "Things Fall Apart".

@crecheshaw 3 жыл бұрын

One of his books was a requirement for one of my college courses long ago👍🏿

@thinkingkenyan9002 3 жыл бұрын

Things fall apart was what we read in Kenya.

@rustyscrew5776 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we had to pick between , Things fall apart and Half of a yellow sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Ended up picking the latter. But I think I’ll read it now.

@etcetera3282 2 жыл бұрын

"One of his books...", so, that's it? What good is it if you can't even remember the title of the book, let alone the lesson?

@crecheshaw 2 жыл бұрын

@@etcetera3282 I dont recall it being a requirement for me to remember that today...and or to Placate for you or any one else..Just remember his name...Take care

@etcetera3282 2 жыл бұрын

@@crecheshaw Offended??? hah You know sis...we are actually talking to ourselves when we write comments. So, you're basically right. I guess I was interested to find out about the title of the book. However, instead of asking politely, I misbehaved. Now, I'm badly served. Karma! I never learn...haha

@eddiethorne6461 3 жыл бұрын

Things Falls Apart was the first book that was written by an African author that i read.

@2naSkia 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing man

@whz366 3 жыл бұрын

Talented writer.

@kehindeayoola8687 Жыл бұрын

Achebe was a great man and his works Continues to shine throughout the world. TRUE AFRICAN LEGEND 🤍

@noahnoah1091 3 жыл бұрын

If he was white , he would have been named the best novelist of all time. He is the greatest novelist ever . The Legend, the best .....

@IamGodSon 3 жыл бұрын

He created a language for the local africa thought. Just like shakespeare did for elisabethean England.

@dordot7030 3 жыл бұрын

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart. Yes

@lindaomare9897 3 жыл бұрын

Great great man

@hamidullaha.saahir9144 3 жыл бұрын

Praise be to G-d, that he spoke the truth that Africans must accept the responsibility to write, publish and tell their own history from once being a Sovereign people to colonization and enslavement of their ancestors in the Americas. And then the descendants of those enslaved Africans in the diaspora must accept their responsibilities to write, publish and tell their history and reconnect with their brothers and sisters on the African continent with the aim of getting to know each other by growing business and cultural networks.

@johnnwabuforudemezue1108 2 жыл бұрын

They don't want to be part of us,they are trying to integrate with the west. We Africans need to put ourselves there.

@SipheDlamini 2 жыл бұрын

I remember reading his novel "Things Fall Apart" at the University of Zululand (South Africa) and just how it opened my eyes and punched deeply into my soul. I just couldn't comprehend how much colonialism had messed up my culture. That novel made me a Pan-African. 😍 (look up the poem: Refugee Mother and Child) Also, shout out to Wole Soyinka. 🙌

@TheFizziologieNetwork 2 жыл бұрын

Things Fall Apart had a profound impact on my life. It clearly accounts the human toll of colonization. It really should be required reading for all students, worldwide.

@ariesone1878 3 жыл бұрын

I still have one of the first books that I read. , which you wrote. “ Things Fall Apart”. God bless you. -Los Angeles, CA. USA

@jetsnitram7188 3 жыл бұрын

"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior Is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned..." H I M Haile Selassie's speech to the United Nation in (1963) popularized by Bob Marley in his song War. 🇯🇲

@cosmopolitanwonder9675 3 жыл бұрын

Still relates to 2012. Sinfully nothing much has changed only more people are talking and listening, and getting knowledge and truth.

@impalabirungi6079 2 жыл бұрын

He is right. They are many. I can't wait to tell mine.

@dionnefrancis9458 3 жыл бұрын

Hi,Chinua ,it's nice to put a face to the name.for years ago I read this man books

@Liveonpoint99 3 жыл бұрын

Bill Moyers was one of the best journalists out there, the world is not the same. Chinua Achebe, will always be a legend. Literature shapes our view on everyone and everything around us.

@dondi2129 3 жыл бұрын

I read one of his books when I was little. It was sooo goood but I forgot the name though

@jayspicetvjerryxlove3251 3 жыл бұрын

Things fall apart you mean?

@gemal434 10 ай бұрын

African one day we shall rise

@fungulambuta-ganda2535 3 жыл бұрын

Great writer I did read " Things fall apart".

@tahniquawilliams8013 3 жыл бұрын

Much respect ❤️💡❤️

@Zara-um1nx 3 жыл бұрын

This is very true

@regmonmusic 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@davidbyrne6615 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely a gentleman who understands we are all brothers an sisters regardless of stature an knowing a love for all is a love for all.God bless him...

@zuzemoyo7696 3 жыл бұрын

Wisdom delivered by the humble man to a representative of the arrogant blindingly ignorant other clouded by centuries of delusions.

@gs6051 3 жыл бұрын

Can you do a video about Kenneth Kaunda

@caro.caro.9578 2 жыл бұрын

I have read Things Fall Apart so many times over...my two favorites with To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

@igwehjanemary11 Жыл бұрын

The way he made all those story book s. is awesome

@2nacheki Жыл бұрын

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@rizikimichelle5885 2 жыл бұрын

A true African treasure

@shetijay 2 жыл бұрын

Africa's best.

@empceazer 2 жыл бұрын

The man, the legend.

@dontaskmewhy100 3 жыл бұрын

Human being is from Africa.

@richmondgarvin970 2 ай бұрын

That's my mentor

@siristarburst9 2 жыл бұрын

Mungu Akubariki! Yes, OURSTORY. Frankly I don't care whether whites care or know their LIES. WE the diaspora MUST KNOW our TRUTH. Thank you.

@oluchiosakwe 3 жыл бұрын

Nice

@tm1464 3 жыл бұрын

✊

@blackwidowrowe6271 Жыл бұрын

666 Loved his literature. May he Rest in Paradise.

@novastellar 3 жыл бұрын

Things Fall apart

@mahib024 2 жыл бұрын

India's Mulk Raj Anand and Nigeria's Chinua Achebe were the greatest novelists of all time🤍🇮🇳

@lioness7772 2 жыл бұрын

He looks just like Nelson Mandela

@764music 2 жыл бұрын

The partnership of the whites and the blacks is the same as the partnership of the horse and rider... wow!!!

@2nacheki 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion Sean MusicUK.

@gemal434 10 ай бұрын

things fall a part

@jermaineyoung1214 2 жыл бұрын

The "good" white man.They are far and few between. He sees this now.I hope more and more Africans come to this conclusion each day. js

@shetijay 2 жыл бұрын

There partnership of the white man and Africans is of that of a horse and it's rider.

@johnnwabuforudemezue1108 2 жыл бұрын

We have to tell our own story, we cannot allow black Americans do that

@hamidullaha.saahir9144 3 жыл бұрын

I wish that sign of African stories was removed so we could read every word and not just hear what this author was saying.

@ronanf9053 3 жыл бұрын

They don’t have any stories lol

@Optimismus53 3 жыл бұрын

what do you mean by that? please explain it to me.

@nauticdixons 3 жыл бұрын

Then stop coming here. You cab help yourself, fake "superior" man with fake "His"-story!

@freega46356k 3 жыл бұрын

That's why we igbo biafran want the restoration of Republic of Biafran nation. So that Afrika dignity will be restore back on earth,, support the biafrans referendum from Nigaria.. Because Nigaria is the problem of Africa continent..

@MohamedHassan-ni6un 3 жыл бұрын

Why would you say Nigeria is a problem of Africa? I'm Somali and Nigeria and us have had a very good and strong relationship. When we chased Siad Barre out of the throne, Nigeria took him because they respected us. So I wish you settle your differences and don't fight over colonial borders.

@richardobiekwe9437 3 жыл бұрын

@@MohamedHassan-ni6un The issue is that Nigeria should be a world power but corruption and ethnic bigotry/neglect especially against the old Biafrans has killed the nation. That is why the old Biafra seeks restoration because we believe that the government has neglected us. Come in to our region and most of what should be built and handled by the Federal government where built by the people not even the state. Since the war the Federal government has refused to restore our infrastructure it instead went ahead to shut down more of them and left them be in an attempt to economically destabilise the region. That is why the people want out.

@nauticdixons 3 жыл бұрын

@@MohamedHassan-ni6un you misunderstood his point. I'm Niegrian as well, but Africa as a whole would be in a much better position is the sleeping giant that is Nigeria is not being held back by the evil and most incompetence government EVER which the populace is trying so desperately to get rid of. The Biafra referendum is one of the means.

@kuttikuttan 7 ай бұрын

Just completed reading Things Fall Apart. I didnt like the novel much.The anthropological frame of the novel is interesting but the male chauvanist perceptions of the tribal clans, treating women as inferior to men (there are many sentences in the novel describing'womanish feebleness' not suited to 'brave' and chivalrous men. I didnt like Okonkwo's tribal mind boasting cruel killing of fellow men and the tribe's mad following of supernatural gods and priests