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5. Chinua Achebe
Achebe in 2008
Born
Albert Chinualumogu Achebe
(1930-11-16)16 November 1930
Ogidi, Nigeria Protectorate
Died
21 March 2013(2013-03-21)
(aged 82)
Boston, Massachusetts,
United States
Occupation
David and Marianna Fisher
University Professor and
Professor of Africana Studies
Brown University
Nationality Nigerian
Ethnicity Igbo
Period 1958–2013
Notable works
The African Trilogy:
–Things Fall Apart,
–No Longer at Ease,
–Arrow of God;
Also, A Man of the People, and
Anthills of the Savannah.
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9. This poem is taken from a collection of African nature poems.
The notes tell us that the poet is writing here about the
Spotted Eagle Owl, the Black Eagle and the Peregrine Falcon.

10. Raptor
Sailing …
impossibly high,
navigating majestically
on unseen mountain thermals
or splicing* the landscape
faster than a flighted arrow,
punching a hole in the air
with an audible swoosh …
perhaps winging noiselessly,
unerringly,
through the blackest night,
seeing sixty times as far
as a man
by the light
of a single candle …
whatever shape they take,
Nature’s superlatives belong,
aptly,
to the raptors.
* Dutch splissen; akin to Middle Dutch splitten = to split
AG Tebsin - 1993