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Going home song.
Chinua Achebe In His Own Words
On the Value & Functions of Literature and Storytelling,
Works by Chinua Achebe, Interviews with Chinua Achebe
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ON THE VALUE & FUNCTIONS
OF LITERATURE AND STORY TELLING
Note: Interpretative summaries is this section are Cora Agatucci's
" the continue beyond the war and the warrior.
It is the story that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters.
Going home poem achebe biography
It is the saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars
into the spikes of the cactus fence.
The story is our escort; without it, we are blind.
Does the blind man own his escort? No, neither do we the story;
rather it is the story that owns us and directs us.
--Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
From "What Has Literature Got to Do with It," collected in Hopes and Impediments(1988):
"Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on