Summary of Chinua Achebe's Interview with BBC

In this interview with BBC news, Chinua Achebe, discusses his childhood and the affects colonization has had on the Igbo culture and community.  In the beginning of the interview, Achebe talks about his life in Nigeria and the influence Christian missionaries and colonization had on the culture, especially regarding the oral traditions and the idea of how people communicate.  He states that the Igbo language is dying out and experiencing, what some linguists have called "language dispossession" (a term which was seen earlier in another article by David Nieto as well).
Furthermore, Achebe goes on to discuss that part of the reason the Igbo language is becoming extinct is due to the fact that younger generations have stopped speaking the language and performing the cultural rituals for fear of being seen as different, which is one of the reasons as to why colonialism has such a strong hold on the culture of the natives and the traditions that the indigenous people were born with.  As an author and advocate for the preservation of heritage and traditions, Achebe is starting a "literary movement" to combat the long lasting effects of colonization, by re-writing all of his books in the Igbo language, hoping too that other publishers and authors might go the same route and in essence catalyze a cultural movement.