ACHEBE ACHEBE : A LAST MUNTE BLUNDER ?

 

CHINUA  ACHEBE: WAS THIS A LAST MINUTE   BLUNDER?

                                  By

                          Mike Okhihiemen

                         ( Atohengbe  Aigbomian )

 Sure: a good thing…Nigerians don’t abuse the dead; more so a literary giant like the author of Things Fall Apart…he  deserves all the praise he can get… but come to think of it: does that erase the truth or the opinion of the majority who  still  think that the  guru may have soiled his good name in the last minute  and hastily departed?  If Achebe  were  in  Chief  Awolowo’s position with a mandate to end the war, would he had fed those  fighting  him?.Would Achebe had fed his enemies?

This is where some still  feel that the great man  may have made a blunder that nearly soiled his good name before departing . To me,  he reasoned like an Igbo man belatedly … rather like the great African  that the whole world view him to be .I stand corrected.

 What do you think? 

ACHEBE