Kudakwashe Mutsauri (Quad)

Packaging for OnePlus 2 by Mash Creative

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AUTHOR OF THE DAY:

Chinua Achebe 

Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist and author of Things Fall Apart, a work that in part led to his being called the “patriarch of the African novel.”

Born in Nigeria in 1930, Chinua Achebe attended the University of Ibadan. In 1958, his groundbreaking novel Things Fall Apart was published. It went on to sell more than 12 million copies and been translated into more than 50 languages. Achebe later served as the David and Marianna Fisher University professor and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He died on March 21, 2013, at age 82, in Boston, Massachusetts.

The 1960s proved to be a creatively fertile period for Achebe. It was during this decade that he wrote the novels No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God(1964) and A Man of the People (1966), all of which address the issue of traditional ways of life coming into conflict with new, often colonial, points of view. (Anthills of the Savannah [1987] took on a similar theme.)

In a related endeavor, in 1967, Chinua Achebe and Christopher Okigbo, a renowned poet, co-founded a publishing company, the Citadel Press, which they intended to run as an outlet for a new kind of African-oriented children’s books. Okigbo was soon killed, however, in the Nigerian civil war. Two years later, Achebe toured the United States with Gabriel Okara and Cyprian Ekwensi, fellow writers, giving lectures at various universities. The 1960s also marked Achebe’s wedding to Christie Chinwe Okoli in 1961, and they went on to have four children.

When he returned to Nigeria from the United States, Achebe became a research fellow and later a professor of English (1976–81) at the University of Nigeria. During this time, he also served as director of two Nigerian publishing houses, Heinemann Educational Books Ltd. and Nwankwo-Ifejika Ltd.

On the writing front, the 1970s proved equally productive, and Achebe published several collections of short stories and a children’s book: How the Leopard Got His Claws (1973). Also released around this time were the poetry collections Beware, Soul-Brother (1971) and Christmas in Biafra(1973), and Achebe’s first book of essays, Morning Yet on Creation Day(1975).

While back in the United States in 1975, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Achebe gave a lecture called “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness,” in which he asserted that Joseph Conrad’s famous novel dehumanizes Africans. The work referred to Conrad as a “thoroughgoing racist,” and, when published in essay form, it went on to become a seminal postcolonial African work. Achebe joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut that same year, returning to the University of Nigeria in 1976.

Chinua Achebe won several awards over the course of his writing career, including the Man Booker International Prize (2007) and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2010). He also received honorary degrees from more than 30 universities around the world.

Chinua Achebe died on March 21, 2013, at the age of 82, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Words Kill Wars.

Almost one year ago, I featured this campaign (created by international advertising agency Ogilvy & Mather for adot.com) on WE AND THE COLOR. Goal of the campaign was to urge the leaders of ‪Ukraine‬,‪ Russia‬, and the entire world to talk in order to find a peaceful solution. Almost one year later, the conflict is still alive, much worse and many people lost their home or their lives. And not only a country is separated again in east and west. The only thing we can do is to appeal to the leaders to talk.

Finally the kings of the best fonts released this past year. It was very tough to choose the top 10, but this is how the market dictated the trend on this past year. Rene Bieder, Fontfabric and Laura Worthington are the great winners of this 2014, their neat, dedicated work deserves the first places of this list.

These are the top 10 fonts of the year click on the names if you want to see more details:

Galano Grotesque by Rene Bieder

Nexa Rust by Fontfabric

Glober by Fontfabric

Adorn by Laura Worthington

Selfie by Lián Types

Trend Rough by Latinotype

Lulo Clean by Yellow Design Studio

Harman by Ahmet Altun

Brandon Printed by HVD Fonts

Texta by Latinotype

Freedom Over Fear by Rick Crane Available as a sticker/print/apparel etc here: http://www.redbubble.com/people/thepapercrane/works/12623737-freedom-over-fear

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