Achebe’s insights on the African Diaspora and Baldwin’s comments at the 1980 ALA

An Excerpt of more than an hour long interview with Chinua Achebe by Joyce Ashuntantang, Okey Ndibe, Sowore Omoyele and Oyiza Daba. Prompted by a question from Okey Ndibe, the Master Storyteller tells the story of the ALA conference of 1980 where he and James Baldwin where the keynote speakers. He uses Baldwin’s comments on this occasion as a launching pad to give his insights on the importance of Africans and African Americans to be on the same page.

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