This is like clearing the table for it. I've started in the way I do. Achebe has not written overtly about his own life until now. Home and Exile began with three lectures he gave at Harvard in December 1998. What it means is to ask anybody who's dealing with someone else's story to walk softly, as Yeats said, because you walk on my dreams.
People dream their world into being.
If you're a visitor, remember that, and you can write as strong a story as anybody else. Some years earlier, she had been invited to participate in a conference of African writers that Achebe was also asked to attend. Achebe shakes his head. She's more than paid her dues as an African writer. It's hard to remember the language he's speaking is far from his mother tongue.