A review by jaclyn_youngblood
Home and Exile by Chinua Achebe

4.0

This was a very good intro to the author, whose voice comes across so clearly and beautifully in discussions of land, home, language, permission, and stories. It also contained great recommendations for other early works of fiction coming out of Africa (aside from his Things Fall Apart) in the 1950s, amidst many struggles for self-determination and self-rule. I can imagine Achebe giving these lectures at a bookstore (though I know it was part of a Harvard series), and that delights me.