"Do quotations from 'Things Fall Apart' (though written in the 20th century, but still widely quoted now), scare you?" CAO.
Good question, Chidi.
No! Quotations from Things Fall Apart cannot scare any person. What is potentially scary is the use to which quotations are put. What is even scarier is the mind that does not recognize that contexts matter in any discourse. To deploy today, the Igbo cosmology of circa 1880 as if nothing has changed in the Igbo world, reveals some form of tribal zealotry or willful ignorance. That, indeed, scares me.
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On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:12 PM Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:
"So when I see people writing in this forum in the 21st century using ancestral, genetic, and ethnic identity platforms, I feel frankly scared." (Samuel Zalanga).
Samuel,
Do quotations from "Things Fall Apart" (though written in the 20th century, but still widely quoted now), scare you?
CAO.
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