Chinua Achebe Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

  Chinua Achebe

  War, Vines, Hints

  Chinua Achebe (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.29, Anchor

• Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

  Chinua Achebe

  War, Sound, Stories

• The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the victims of the civil war, that market was actually destroyed and at the end of the war a new Nigeria has struggled to come into being and I believe that what is probably going to replace the market literature might be the video, which they have taken to in a big way, creating dramas. So that may be the next thing way we will see coming out of the local basic level in our society.

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, War, Drama

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