Category: A Love For Literature

“To me, being an intellectual doesn’t mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.”
― Chinua Achebe

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A Love For Literature

The Queen

Many love poems that are quoted by men to women describe ‘the one’, they go on to paint a picture of this woman who was God’s special masterpiece and what not. And,truth be told, every woman, deep down, wants to be that woman for her man. In high school, I came across this poem. It […]

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Hymn To The Sun

If I were to attribute my love and appreciation for African literature to any one author,it would be,without a doubt,one Chinua Achebe!(And I’m not alone!) As Things Fall Apart was to my parents’ generation, A Man Of The People and Anthills Of The Savannah are to me: Eye-opening, epiphany-generating,thought-provoking. This elegiac ode, from Anthills Of […]