1 March 2017

THINGS FALL APART

No Longer at Ease
Heinemann (1960)
Chinua Achebe

I first came across Chinua Achebe when obsessing over The Roots’ THINGS FALL APART. Great album, great book. It’s similar to how I encountered Norman Mailer: ‘paint a picture with a pen like Norman Mailer’ RAPPED TALIB KWELI ON GET BY in 2002. Spying Achebe’s No Longer at Ease in a recent trip to Islington Library, it made sense.