In Commemoration of The Nigerian Pen Wielder: Albert Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
By: Roland Bayode (Questionnaire)
Writing has been widely recognized as one of the most promising standards to right the wrongs in our society. Splendid penning is hard to find as the act of inscribing is now annihilating, only writers can tell the untold stories of quandary behind the scenes of writing.
Achebe is not just a writer who has demonstrated his skill, talent and intellectual wealth by engraving contemporary literature in both artistic and imperial precepts. His standard and style are more distinguished in writing history as he had structurally dominated the novelists' realm with his world-class editions.
Achebe's jaunts in dissertations were lauded for his unsentimental characterization in advising squabbles on cultural imperialism. He painted our national colours of green-white-green in cultural magnificence as well as traditional and conventional techniques which gave rise to the metamorphosis of creative writings in the coming generations.
His works have epitomized classical compositions that have been adapted into movies. He has won several awards with his very straightforward diction and his ingenious expressions have significant importance in the several untold tales in African history.
Without any form of sentiment or objection, this master of the pen has proven himself artistically as well as in his values and accomplishments to be A Man of Hope and Impediments who has glinted both Home and Exile. He unravelled to us a prophesy that There Was A Country where, a long time ago, Things Fall Apart.
He wanted the world to feel his pen and that he did. But the Arrow of God hit like a flash and Achebe left us a few years ago to join his progenitors. A Man of The People is truly gone but his letters remain with us.
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Roland Bayode or Questionnaire as he likes to be called is a budding writer. He is also a 300l student of Mass Communication, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo state.
