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Chinua Achebe in 1960 A reader is likely to have the image of a favourite author fixed in his or her head forever. Usually, this image will be a representation of the author at the age or period the reader got to know him. Hardly will it change. Thus, if the author became a favourite in his old age, this image sticks and rarely does one look back on the author's younger years. And vice versa. I chanced upon Chinua Achebe 's picture, supposedly taken two years after the publication of his debut novel Things Fall Apart . I must say that I've never ever thought of searching for this author in his youthful days. When  Things Fall Apart was published, in 1958, the author was twenty-eight. Have you seen your favourite authors in their young days (if they are old)? And can you identify them? This picture was obtained through Seun Writes and I hope I'm using it fairly since I'm not benefitting - financially - from its use here.

The second Picture Speaks in the past two yeas features a shot from the launch of Kofi Akpali 's humorous travelogue: Sense of Savannah, Tales of a Friendly Walk through Northern Ghana . In the Middle is M. K. B. Asante, a renowned Diplomat and Statesman, followed by the author Kofi Akpabli (in spectacles). The Book was launched at the National Theatre on March 31, 2011 and copies are currently available at all Bookshops in Ghana: Silverbird, Legon Bookshop etc.

This is a Primary school at Chiana in the Upper East Region.