Achebe, Achebe

Oh Achebe of the Eastern

Heartland.

He that resurrected

African letters,

Achebe of whom indelible

prints speak,

Achebe of whose tongue

is the gold mine of

oratory,

of whose Pen is the

inexhaustible treasure

of creative writing.

You are undoubtedly

the Black Chaucer,

A Pearl and Pride

of the African Continent.

Oh Achebe!

How glorious an exit

from Legend to Immortal,

how remarkable

a towering and

enviable legacy

second to none in

our grief stricken

Continent.