I first met Kofi Awoonor as an excitable 17-year-old high school student then in the Sixth Form.
Transitive Measures: Tragedy and Existentialism in African Literature
Readers of Things Fall Apart will recall the moment in the penultimate chapter of the novel when the gathering of the people of Umuofia is rudely interrupted by messengers from the white man. The messengers are confronted by Okonkwo, who happens to have taken a position at the very edge of the gathering.