TONY DOE WROTE ..I WILL BE THE 1ST TO SAY THAT THE IBO AS A GROUP IS NOT WITHOUT ITS FLAWS.

I WILL BE THE 1ST TO SAY THAT THE IBO AS A GROUP IS NOT WITHOUT ITS FLAWS. ITS SUCCESS CAN AND DID CARRY DEADLY PENALTIES: THE DANGERS OF HUBRIS OVERWEENING PRIDE AND THOUGHTLESSNESS WHICH INVITE ENVY AND HATRED OR EVEN WORSE THAT CAN OBSESS THE MIND WITH MATERIAL SUCCESS AND DISPOSE IT TO ALL KINDS OF CRUDE SHOWINESS. THERE IS NO DOUBT AT ALL THAT THERE IS A STRAND IN CONTEMPORARY IGBO BEHAVIOUR THAT CAN OFFEND BY ITS NOISY EXHIBITIONISM AND DISREGARD FOR HUMILITY AND QUIET".

- Excerpts from There was a Country.

"There was a Country" was my wife's Valentine's Day gift to me... a compelling "unputdownable" read, detailing the Nigerian Civil War through the eyes of Chinua Achebe.
Not too many books of late, had held me as captive as this Opus. Yes, it courted controversy but still emitted a sincerity few biographies possess. Most others i'd read depicted the biographer as eager to justify a personal position, failed or successful but this book through the eternal depth of its writer's long drawn wisdom and in its simplest form, told a personal story with a global reverberation. I will not fail to keep cupping wisdom from its overflowing fountain... even as I mourn a Sunset at High Noon. #RIP, Chinua Achebe