Linguistic And Cultural Hybriduty In Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Proverbial Quoting Or The Art Of An Mbari House

No doubt, those of you who have read Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart still remember this comment that Achebe’s narrator and mouthpiece throws in the process of reporting a conversation between Unoka and Okoyo in the first pages of the book. The latter is on the point of reclaiming a debt from the former who is an inveterate debtor, and of whom the central character Okonkwo is ashamed in a culture that highly values economic success. Instead of going straight to the point, the narrator tells us that Okoyo stopped