الروائى النيجيرى شينوا اشيبى 1930-2013 -لايوجد عزاء.

Quote: books too. He also brought out Beware Soul Brother (1971), an award-winning collection of poems, and Girls at War and Other Stories (1972), a volume of short stories. These last two came from his experiences of the Biafran War. This was that calamitous civil war of an attempted secession, by Biafra from Nigeria, in which more than a million perished . Surprisingly, Achebe, the most peaceful person you could ever meet, believed firmly that only an independent Biafra, to which its people could retreat, would ensure the survival of the Igbo, of whom he was one. He said, “I believe our cause is right and just. And this is what literature should be about: right and just causes.” From this came his often-repeated statement, “Let the hawk perch and let the eagle perch”: Equality