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Chinua Achebe In His Own Words
On the Value & Functions of Literature and Storytelling,
Works by Chinua Achebe, Interviews with Chinua Achebe
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ON THE VALUE & FUNCTIONS
OF LITERATURE AND STORY TELLING
Note: Interpretative summaries is this section are Cora Agatucci's
" the continue beyond the war and the warrior.
Going home poem achebe biography
It is the story that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters.
It is the saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars
into the spikes of the cactus fence.
The story is our escort; without it, we are blind.
Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story;
rather it is the story that owns us and directs us.
--Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
From "What Has Literature Got to Do with It," collected in Hopes and Impediments(1988):
"Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on