Chinua Achebe born (16/11/1930)

Nigerian novelist, poet and critic. Lived until 2013.
He wrote in English.
"This English, then, which I am using, has witnessed peculiar events in my land that it has never experienced anywhere else. The English language has never been close to Igbo, Hausa, or Yoruba anywhere else in the world. So it has to be different, because these languages and their environment are not inert. They are active, and they are acting on this language which has invaded their territory."
So Nigerian English. But a very educated NigEng, not Fela Kuti's Pidgin or even Amos Tutuola's indigenized colloquial.
"...those who can do the work of extending the frontiers of English so as to accommodate African thought patterns must do it through their mastery of English and not out of innocence."
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