Chinua Achebe: A Storyteller Far From Home January 12, 2000 Chinua Achebe: A Storyteller Far From Home By SOMINI SENGUPTA ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. -- To be human, the writer Chinua Achebe has said, one must have a story.

'It's one of the things humans do,' he insists. 'Not just have a story, but tell a story.' Baza inn ukraini.

For more than four decades Mr. Achebe, the man widely regarded as the progenitor of the modern African novel and the author of the groundbreaking 1958 book 'Things Fall Apart,' has been telling the story of his native Nigeria, before and after its encounter with European colonialism. But these days, as Nigeria takes its first steps toward democracy after a long spell of political repression, Mr. Achebe is not in place to tell the tale.

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Since 1990, when a car accident outside Lagos left him paralyzed from the waist down, he has made a modest wood-frame house here on the Bard College campus his improbable, and, he maintains, his impermanent home. He has been unable to move back to Nigeria not just because the country was, until recently, in the grip of a corrupt dictatorship, but also because the essentials of civil order -- including a health-care system that can tend to his needs -- has all but collapsed. Now 69, he waits for things to fall into place in Nigeria again. And he waits to go home. 'I have chosen a particular story, or maybe that story has chosen me,' he says.

'I just find it useful, fruitful to be in that community, as a writer, as a human being. There is so much to do.' That apparently came into sharp relief in August when, for the first time in nine years, Mr.

Achebe went home to Nigeria for a visit. One recent evening at a talk at Bard College, where he has taught since 1990, he spoke of that visit publicly for the first time. Thomas Keenan, a professor of comparative literature and the director of a nascent interdisciplinary human rights project that sponsored the talk, called it a 'homecoming after his other homecoming.' And what a strange, anticlimactic homecoming it was.

Here was this giant of world literature, sitting in a wheelchair, reporting back on his momentous trip home to a roomful of earnest-faced undergraduates inside the Bard College student center. Speaking softly and with remarkable modesty, peppering his lecture with metaphors, Mr. Achebe talked with his hands, sweeping the air in an arc when referring to Nigeria, sometimes clasping his hands as though in prayer, pointing a long finger when speaking of the reign of dictators.

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The country, he said at one point, is like a wobbly tripod, and its three major ethnic groups -- the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, who frequently contest one another for power and turf -- are its three unwieldy legs. 'Nigeria,' he observed, 'refuses to stand on three legs.' 'I'm still very emotional about it,' he said of his five-week sojourn.

'It's really a wonderful experience to connect again to people who share this culture, this land of Igbo, and to be with people who have been treated very badly by rulers.' In an interview later that evening he tried to explain the conditions of his strange exile here by turning to the novel 'Ambiguous Adventure,' by the Senegalese writer Cheik A. Its protagonist, a young African aristocrat, goes to France, seeking to master French philosophy. When he gets there, he discovers how unnecessary he is.