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Three chis to an Okwonkwo

With Smitta  Smitten

Last Friday, Chinua Achebe, modern Afrika’s first great novelist, passed away. The trybutes have been pouring in, all talkin’ about watt a great novelist Achebe was — which is true. And how he passed on at the flowering of the pwomise of his youth, which dude, @ 82, just ain’t true!

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