Noes on Chinua Achebe
-born in Nigeria, read and studied Shakespeare and more English texts
-turnin point is MisterJohnson, 1939 novel set in Nigeria (this book is response to Mister Johnson)
-everyone offended because M.J. Is super racsit even professors
-"this isnt us" tell our stories, tgus things fall apart (not Africa, but insight)
-treat book not like a native informant (to go in a community of "natives" to learn their secrets, then you can tell the world how the community works) problem is that the world changes. Its not exotic, it was someones life
--dont generalize. This is a text of a certain culture from a certain time-not all of Africa
-helped make an African Series that gave people jobs and income-supported many authors (Heinemanm)
-Baifra movement (Nigeria and in the Ibgo region) no one teusts them lol
-Ethiopia is treated like Zion because it resisted colonialism
