A Language for Life: Chinua Achebe

 


Experience is unique and personal. It cannot be perfectly transferred, but through various artistic endeavours, experiences can be described 

to the effect that the reading/viewing of these artworks present the audience with a new experience in themselves.  This experience is one that can be shared by many over a wide range of places.

 

‘The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.’   -Chinua Achebe

-Maria Fowler

 

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