People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats the time to do something about it, not when its around your neck. – Chinua Achebe
Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasnt perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. – Chinua Achebe