Achebe Diaries
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Last published Fri, Feb 6, 2026
No one ever talks about that scarred foot, palms thick as calves, the lost limbs...
We don't know just how suffocating the dust really is, fighting a loosing battle with the stench of fear while dancing round legs light and heavy, eager and aching to move. We fail to grasp the weight of the word "Charge!"
More words will carry the pain of who that feet, those palms and forgotten limbs belong to, their melancholic tunes will float with the wind, a dirge will hold the sail of their memories steady as the sea walks with a raft carrying the world to the shores of 1971.
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