Writers & Orators

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At most, humans are only eight feet above the ground.
Looking down is easier for the eyes to accomplish than up.
Nigeria’s sorry state makes for fine orators, I tell you!
You only need to look down into the cesspit, and then choose your words.

Have out greatest writers and novelists been truly great?
To build a tale of history… to tell stories;
To provoke emotional outbursts… to point accusing fingers;
To paint yourself a hero… to set the record crooked –

And our crude minds pronounce them men of valor,
For telling tales that we can relate to;
For serving us history while we lie lazily in bed;
For charming us with oratorios that tell only a side of the story –

On the other hand, my people,
Many White Writers deserve praise;
For they get their inspiration from the vast skies,
And weave stories that tell us of worlds we couldn’t have imagined.

Avatar.
John Arthur.
Gulliver’s Travels.
Name them!

In the end, anyway,
A Library is built by collecting their books and ours.
Therefore, all are important.
But who says we must all spring forth from the village like Achebe?!