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Elechi Amadi
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“Literature is a dynamic thing. It moves with time. It is all about human beings. There is no way a writer cannot write against the background of the culture he knows which is where he is living. So that is what is happening, literature is alive and still reflecting the society.”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Literature is a reflection of life. It is a vehicle of culture and history. By that I mean if you go through the novels of a people at any age, you will be able to get a mine of information on the way they lived, their world view, their songs, and dances, their dressing patterns and even the geography of the area.”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The novelist is primarily an entertainer. In the course of telling his story, he has an aesthetic input. This is what the reader enjoys. The novelist is a story teller with an eye on the aesthetic value of language. And he is faithful to the background against which he is telling the story. But he is not a teacher. The moment he sets out to teach consciously, he becomes a propagandist.”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is dishonest for a writer to sandwich a particular opinion in a good story. If you want to teach, you must be an expert in what you want to teach otherwise, you are a quack. I said this in my article, “The Problem of Commitment in Literature”. At best, a novelist can teach literature. But if he wants to teach Economics or Government, he is now a quack. For him to assume that an idea he holds is the correct one for the society is bullshit as the Americans would say.”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The African Writer is not a Teacher – An Interview with Elechi Amadi by Nnawuihe Fidelis Echendu, December 4, 2024.
“It was a fact that if Amadioha has insisted on taking a man’s life, no medicine man could do anything about it...”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What hurts one man may benefit another” and “a diseased village is a good village to a medicine man”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One thing is clear: I shall marry Ihuoma. She is a human being, and if marrying a woman like her is a fatal mistake, I am prepared to make it. If I am her husband for a day before my death my soul will go singing happily to the spirit world. There also I shall be prepared to dare the wrath of four hundred Sea Kings for her sake.”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ihuoma is the sea-king’s main interest and her male admires are victims of circumstance and of their own misdeeds”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one wanted to betray his admiration. There was silence for a time.”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He reconciles himself to these forces and treats them with reverence and dignity. He believes that his every action is guided and directed by spirits”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are few women like Ihuoma in the world... It is death to marry them and they leave behind a harrowing string of dead husbands. They are usually beautiful, very beautiful but dogged by their invisible husbands of the spirit world. With some spirits marriage is possible if an expert on sorcery is consulted. With the sea-king it is impossible. He is too powerful to be fettered and when he is on the offensive he is absolutely relentless. He unleashes all the powers at his command and they are fatal”
Elechi Amadi (1934–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source