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AlyssaCurrently reading: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I read this book for school about 20 years ago, so it’s past time for a reread. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nowreading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nowreading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bannedbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bannedbooks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThingsFallApart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThingsFallApart</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a>

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BLK News Now!"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter." — <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BlackHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BlackHistory</a>

Steve MitchellBook eight of the year is part of the Penguin Great Ideas series <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Goodreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Goodreads</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ReadingChallenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ReadingChallenge</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/CurrentlyReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CurrentlyReading</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Bookworm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookworm</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Bibliophile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bibliophile</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/PenguinGreatIdeas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PenguinGreatIdeas</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a>

MeganChinua Achebe:"Then I grew older and began to read about adventures in which I didn’t know that I was supposed to be on the side of those savages who were encountered by the good white man. I instinctively took sides with the white people. They were fine! They were excellent. They were intelligent. The others were not . . . they were stupid and ugly. That was the way I was introduced to the danger of not having your own stories. "(1/2) <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Representation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Representation</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Colonialism</a>

heimberg_ch«Tout s’effondre», l’économie précoloniale qui donne encore des idées. Le célèbre roman de <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> qui oppose une perspective africaine autochtone aux récits coloniaux écrits du dehors peut encore inspirer, en mettant en lumière une économie fondée sur le partage et la solidarité. <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/CatherineFrammery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CatherineFrammery</a> <a href="https://www.letemps.ch/economie/tout-s-effondre-l-economie-precoloniale-qui-donne-encore-des-idees" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.letemps.ch/economie/tout-s-effondre-l-economie-precoloniale-qui-donne-encore-des-idees</a>

Vicente Vázquez Freire📖 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TodoSeDesmorona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TodoSeDesmorona</a>, muy buena novela de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a>. De esos libros que mejoran, merecen la pena, por el final que tienen. 7/10.

astensonIt took me getting to the end of “Things Fall Apart” to learn that it wasn’t a nonfiction-style, daily life and rituals in a Nigerian clan “text,” but rather a gut punching story. Really powerful <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a>

El_rincon_de_kerenCuando los hombres están juntos no es posible que uno de ellos se muestre más grande que los otros.>>>CHINUA ACHEBE Bonito viernes para tí 🤎<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/viernes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#viernes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/elrincondekeren" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#elrincondekeren</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/frasesmotivadoras" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#frasesmotivadoras</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/frasesenespa%C3%B1ol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#frasesenespañol</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/toot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#toot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/roots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#roots</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/chinuaachebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#chinuaachebe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fediverso" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fediverso</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/finde" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#finde</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/weekend" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#weekend</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/buenosdias" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#buenosdias</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/morning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#morning</a>

Ian HuntMarch <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a>: a lot of current reading is no more than 'to read the fiction I have brought onto the shelves and not read yet' -- some of these I have carried around for years. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/GustaveFlaubert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GustaveFlaubert</a> Sentimental Education and Three Tales <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/LemnSissay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LemnSissay</a> My Name is Why <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/JamesKelman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JamesKelman</a> The Busconductor Hines 1984 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> Anthills of the Savannah 1987 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/HenryGreen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HenryGreen</a> Loving 1945 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AndreyPlatonov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AndreyPlatonov</a> Happy Moscow -- written 1930s, translated 2001by Robert and Elisabeth Chandler. Astonishing.

Ian HuntReading a bit of 1980s. Both these books are superbly, sometimes astonishingly well written, politically sharp and with deep resources of humour and perceptiveness. Achebe's last novel (1987) feels like a quite different type of achievement than his earlier work. Kelman's first novel (1984) just couldn't be better. Poets are the unacknowledged thingwaybobs, some novelists too. <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/JamesKelman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JamesKelman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ScottishLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ScottishLiterature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/AfricanLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AfricanLiterature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/vendredilecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vendredilecture</a>

earthlingThere Was a Country: A Personal History of BiafraFrom the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes a longawaited memoir about coming of age with a fragile new nation, then watching it torn asunder in a tragic civil war.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonfiction</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biafra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biafra</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nigeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Nigeria</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#memoir</a>

𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞🌻🇳🇬"You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break." <a href="https://bit.ly/47q7thX" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/47q7thX</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/nigeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nigeria</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/africanwriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#africanwriters</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/MediumWriters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediumWriters</a> <a href="https://me.dm/tags/chinuaachebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chinuaachebe</a>

damian entwistleToday's poem:Answer - by Chinua Achebe<a href="https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/733323794086756352/answer?source=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/733323794086756352/answer?source=share</a><a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/realisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#realisation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#power</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#heritage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/selfhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#selfhood</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/agency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#agency</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/change" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#change</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/values" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#values</a> <a href="https://mastodon.org.uk/tags/choice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#choice</a>

Art in a Blanket Fort“If you don’t like someone’s story write your own.” — Chinua Achebe“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.” ― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#classics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bookstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

ValourI'm reading Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" which is probably only the second African authored novel I've ever read ("Half of a Yellow Sun" is the other) and like a) this SHOULD be a part of the National Curriculum syllabus for English Literature and b) I need to read more African novels because its great and its got a very different narrative style, which I am really enjoying.<a href="https://toot.wales/tags/reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/african" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#african</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novel</a>

Valerie Waterhouse<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/7Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#7Books</a> 1. The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett 2. Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe 3. La Peste. Albert Camus. (Atheism, mostly) 4. South Riding. Winifred Holtby 5. Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains). Paolo Cognetti 6. Go. Went. Gone. Jenny Erpenbeck 7. Honeymoon. Malachi WhitakerBonus: The Accidental Tourist <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AnneTyler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AnneTyler</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/FrancesHodgsonBurnett" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FrancesHodgsonBurnett</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/AlbertCamus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AlbertCamus</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/WinifredHoltby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WinifredHoltby</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/PaoloCognetti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaoloCognetti</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/JennyErpenbeck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JennyErpenbeck</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/MalachiWhitaker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MalachiWhitaker</a>

Mihailik 🌼🌼🌼🏃🏿‍♀️🌼🌼🌼<a href="https://blacktwitter.io/@zhivi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@zhivi</a> The other massively important resource is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.For once Mr.Achebe is a cornerstone of modern African literature. And for all the successes of Black American literature, African literature is a very different depth and reach.And also Things Fall Apart confronts you not with abstract morals, but it's full of specifics. Customs, phrases traces of which you spot in diaspora. Vibes you recognise elsewhere.<a href="https://blacktwitter.io/tags/TFA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TFA</a> <a href="https://blacktwitter.io/tags/ThingsFallApart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThingsFallApart</a> <a href="https://blacktwitter.io/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a>

DeeGee<a href="https://c18.masto.host/@EJBrand" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@EJBrand</a> Seven of my favorite authors:<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GeorgeEliot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeorgeEliot</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/HenryJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HenryJames</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MargeryAllingham" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MargeryAllingham</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MaryRenault" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MaryRenault</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ChinuaAchebe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChinuaAchebe</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EdnaOBrien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EdnaOBrien</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WilliamTrevor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WilliamTrevor</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

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