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

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  • @2nacheki
    @2nacheki  3 года назад +8

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  • @africaiswatching
    @africaiswatching 3 года назад +49

    He is a legend

  • @mikeymushi
    @mikeymushi 3 года назад +28

    This is so so true I could cry

  • @blackstarmedia1410
    @blackstarmedia1410 3 года назад +26

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

  • @mohamedsaid3266
    @mohamedsaid3266 3 года назад +12

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

  • @SP.4
    @SP.4 3 года назад +16

    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❣

  • @auntyayosstories2861
    @auntyayosstories2861 3 года назад +17

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

  • @diemmarley1217
    @diemmarley1217 3 года назад +10

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

  • @Vydez254
    @Vydez254 3 года назад +13

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

  • @bevnedd8746
    @bevnedd8746 3 года назад +5

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

  • @summerbrooks9922
    @summerbrooks9922 3 года назад +12

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

  • @jeromemorvan7092
    @jeromemorvan7092 3 года назад +10

    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.

  • @joramgatsimbanyi5969
    @joramgatsimbanyi5969 3 года назад +9

    Love from Rwanda...

  • @The_Ayoolakehinde
    @The_Ayoolakehinde Год назад +1

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

  • @bebetter2082
    @bebetter2082 3 года назад +12

    One of my favorite is things fall apart

    • @atambwalisametana7148
      @atambwalisametana7148 3 года назад +2

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

  • @crecheshaw
    @crecheshaw 3 года назад +29

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

    • @thinkingkenyan9002
      @thinkingkenyan9002 3 года назад +4

      Things fall apart was what we read in Kenya.

    • @rustyscrew5776
      @rustyscrew5776 3 года назад

      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
      @etcetera3282 3 года назад +1

      "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
      @crecheshaw 3 года назад

      @@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
      @etcetera3282 3 года назад

      @@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
    @eddiethorne6461 3 года назад +9

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

  • @whz366
    @whz366 3 года назад +4

    Talented writer.

  • @taurus3alexis
    @taurus3alexis 3 года назад +13

    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
      @francisebube6446 3 года назад +3

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

  • @2naSkia
    @2naSkia 3 года назад +7

    Amazing man

  • @ariesone1878
    @ariesone1878 3 года назад +2

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

  • @dordot7030
    @dordot7030 3 года назад +3

    Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart. Yes

  • @lindaomare9897
    @lindaomare9897 3 года назад +4

    Great great man

  • @WhatIsHasValue
    @WhatIsHasValue 3 года назад +2

    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.

  • @impalabirungi6079
    @impalabirungi6079 3 года назад +1

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

  • @hamidullaha.saahir9144
    @hamidullaha.saahir9144 3 года назад +9

    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
      @johnnwabuforudemezue1108 3 года назад

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

  • @davidbyrne6615
    @davidbyrne6615 3 года назад

    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...

  • @dionnefrancis9458
    @dionnefrancis9458 3 года назад +1

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

  • @noahnoah1091
    @noahnoah1091 3 года назад +8

    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
      @IamGodSon 3 года назад +1

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

    • @echezonatabugbo6006
      @echezonatabugbo6006 3 месяца назад

      @@noahnoah1091
      Achebe is a study for Africa writers

  • @SipheDlamini
    @SipheDlamini 3 года назад +3

    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. 🙌

  • @fungulambuta-ganda2535
    @fungulambuta-ganda2535 3 года назад +1

    Great writer I did read " Things fall apart".

  • @igwehjanemary11
    @igwehjanemary11 2 года назад

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

    • @2nacheki
      @2nacheki  2 года назад

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  • @Liveonpoint99
    @Liveonpoint99 3 года назад +1

    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.

  • @Zara-um1nx
    @Zara-um1nx 3 года назад +1

    This is very true

  • @tahniquawilliams8013
    @tahniquawilliams8013 3 года назад +1

    Much respect ❤️💡❤️

  • @jetsnitram7188
    @jetsnitram7188 3 года назад +13

    "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
      @cosmopolitanwonder9675 3 года назад +1

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

  • @dondi2129
    @dondi2129 3 года назад +3

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

  • @caro.caro.9578
    @caro.caro.9578 3 года назад

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

  • @shetijay
    @shetijay 3 года назад

    Africa's best.

  • @regmonmusic
    @regmonmusic 3 года назад +1

    Excellent!

  • @gemal434
    @gemal434 Год назад

    African one day we shall rise

  • @zuzemoyo7696
    @zuzemoyo7696 3 года назад +1

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

  • @rizikimichelle5885
    @rizikimichelle5885 3 года назад

    A true African treasure

  • @empceazer
    @empceazer 2 года назад

    The man, the legend.

  • @gs6051
    @gs6051 3 года назад +2

    Can you do a video about Kenneth Kaunda

  • @sirisongbird
    @sirisongbird 3 года назад

    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.

  • @richmondgarvin970
    @richmondgarvin970 7 месяцев назад

    That's my mentor

  • @mahib024
    @mahib024 3 года назад

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

  • @dontaskmewhy100
    @dontaskmewhy100 3 года назад +1

    Human being is from Africa.

  • @oluchiosakwe
    @oluchiosakwe 3 года назад

    Nice

  • @tm1464
    @tm1464 3 года назад +1

  • @blackwidowrowe6271
    @blackwidowrowe6271 2 года назад

    666
    Loved his literature. May he Rest in Paradise.

  • @novastellar
    @novastellar 3 года назад +1

    Things Fall apart

  • @lioness7772
    @lioness7772 3 года назад +1

    He looks just like Nelson Mandela

  • @764music
    @764music 3 года назад

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

    • @2nacheki
      @2nacheki  3 года назад

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

  • @jermaineyoung1214
    @jermaineyoung1214 3 года назад

    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

  • @gemal434
    @gemal434 Год назад

    things fall a part

  • @johnnwabuforudemezue1108
    @johnnwabuforudemezue1108 3 года назад

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

  • @shetijay
    @shetijay 3 года назад

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

  • @hamidullaha.saahir9144
    @hamidullaha.saahir9144 3 года назад

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

  • @freega46356k
    @freega46356k 3 года назад +2

    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
      @MohamedHassan-ni6un 3 года назад

      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
      @richardobiekwe9437 3 года назад

      @@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
      @nauticdixons 3 года назад

      @@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.

  • @ronanf9053
    @ronanf9053 3 года назад +3

    They don’t have any stories lol

    • @Optimismus53
      @Optimismus53 3 года назад +1

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

    • @nauticdixons
      @nauticdixons 3 года назад +2

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

  • @kuttikuttan
    @kuttikuttan Год назад

    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