WHO IS CHINUA ACHEBE OF NIGERIA?

Professor Chinua Achebe stands out clearly amongst his contemporaries and equals in Nigeria in particular as well as in the entire continent of Africa and all over the literary world in general. This erudite emeritus professor of the African literature, an internationally acclaimed author and essayist, a controversial political- historian and a great writer of human and African events is one of the few highly placed Nigerians that I personally hold in the highest esteem today. Chinua Achebe has refused to sell his precious birthright like the way the biblical Esau did just for the hunger sake for one single meal of bread and lentil stew to his brother Jacob forever.

Chinua Achebe has refused for many decades to compromise his personal principles and his strong commitment to the truth about Nigerian nation that is in deep crises today for those enticing and the highly juicy political appointments, inflated government contracts and patronage, the Ghana-must-go bags or the so called Nigeria's national honors that are normally given to Nigerian traitors instead of the true Nigerian patriots and nationalists on two different occasions and under two different administrations as an academician, a researcher and a political commentator.

Chinua Achebe's place in the Nigeria's annals of history is already determined, known, secured, settled and written in pure gold forever and for the present generations of all Nigerians that are living today and for the future generations of Nigerians that are yet unborn to tap into for the much needed and for the missing inspirations that are not seen in the current leadership in Nigeria in 2012, but can be found from the life and the times of this great mind of African literature.