Meeting Times and Proverbs

Hey Clubbers,

So our first meeting will be held tomorrow in rm. 405 at 3:00. Yes, we finally get to sit down and talk about this book! As a rule for those who are still reading, we will try to limit discussion to BEFORE the westerners appear in the book (if you haven't reached this point, you'll know it when you see it).

To move on to more blog related content, let's talk PROVERBS. Achebe describes conversation in village as a great art, filled with little proverbs (which are EVERYWHERE in the book. Here are two of my favs:

"A toad doesn't run in the daytime for nothing"

"A child's fingers are not scalded by a piece of hot yam which its mother puts into his palm"

What are some of your favourites? Write'em below!

Moving away from the Heart of Darkness

Quick announcement before we begin here; the school board will not be able to supply us the books, so through an intricate system of borrowing, buying, and other means, we will have to find the books ourselves. If you are will ing to lend your copy to someone else in the club after reading, please feel free to comment below.

Achebe was adamantly against Nigeria and African writing, or the continent itself, being subjegated or treated as something inferior. Here is his essay in which he systematically breaks down Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, considered to be a classic of Western Literature. You don't have to have read Conrad to enjoy this essay, and to give you a little more insight into our author. Let me know what you think!