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Hopes and Impediments

: Selected Essays

One of the most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For

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“The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of re-education and re-generation that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: Writers, Reeducation, Marching, Social Activism

“Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

Tagged: Privilege, Imagination, Adipose Tissue