...stories are not always innocent;...they can be used to p… - Chinua Achebe

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...stories are not always innocent;...they can be used to put you in the wrong crowd, in the party of the man who has come to dispossess you.

Chinua Achebe

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Chinua Achebe (November 16, 1930 – March 21, 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic. His first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), is the most widely read book in modern African literature.

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Alternative Names: Albert Chinualumogu Achebe • Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe

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