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OLUWATOYIN ADEPOJU

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In 1990 Mr. Achebe was paralyzed from the waist down in a car accident in Nigeria. The following year he gave an interview to Bradford Morrow in Conjunctions magazine.

Mr. Morrow asked him about the accident, and Mr. Achebe spoke about it with stoicism and good humor. "Children are born deformed," he said. "What crime did they commit? I've been very lucky. I walked for 60 years. So what does it matter that I can't for my last few years. There are people who never walked at all."

His car accident offered him similar lessons. "It is an opportunity," Mr. Achebe told Mr. Morrow. "It's a lesson. It's so much. It is an enrichment. I've learned so much. I've learned how much we depend on each other."

Dwight Garner in The New York Times (3/23/13)

What a man Chinua Achebe was.

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What a great soul Professor Achebe was, so humble and unpretentious! You are right, oa, "what a man Chinua Achebe was" indeed. His was a life fulfilled and a mission accomplished. I had an encounter with him years back when our Program hosted him in Wisconsin for a few days. It was shortly after his accident and he had relocated to Bard College. I was very moved by the wife's commitment to this man as she meticulously pushed him around on the wheelchair all day. I then volunteered to help Mrs. Achebe and she obliged. It would be the first time I pushed someone for a fairly long time on the wheelchair, and so I would occasionally bump into something or inadvertently run into a pothole. Each time this happened, I would naturally cringe. I expected Professor Achebe to say something like "Ouch!" or something like that; but each time it happened, he would softly say, "Thank You!" Apparently, he was thinking more about me than about himself. and that almost brought me to tears. It was such a great honor to get to know such a humble man with extra-human characteristics at that personal level and cannot but pray again that may his gentle soul rest in perfect peace!

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Where were you when the great Chinua Achebe passed away?
I would have to say Addis Ababa.

May his soul rest in peace.

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we were at the african literature association meeting, and there was an
immediate response that all of you would have much appreciated.
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May his soul rest in perfect peace
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