Former South African President and anti-apartheid fighter Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in jail, once said that in the company of Chinua Achebe's novels "prison walls fell down".
If there was one dimension of disappointment that one could detect in ChinuaAchebe, it was the fact that he was famous for one great book when in fact he had written a whole series of great books.
He says it is absurd for anybody to imagine ChinuaAchebe being a writer with a dirty mind, adding that the Church's moral police could utilise their energies better crusading against the lewd publications that litter the newsstands and which any teenager with a few pennies to spare can snap up.