Chinua Achebe

family, without East or West, North or South. Brothers and sisters know nothing of the points of the compass. In his book entitled Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe tells of a community in Nigeria where the harvest was poor. Attempting to encourage a young man, his father tells him: "Do not be disheartened. I kno

dissatisfactions, alternately atopical and atypical—is exploding into ruins. Never before has the cry uttered a few years ago by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, Our world is falling apart! , so relevant. A world is falling apart-a world which we must none the less rebuild based on the measures of new data an