The Guardian has a great interview with Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, also known as the founder of modern African literature. I was unaware that he was the dude who wrote "Things Fall Apart" which was taken as the title of the Roots' 2nd album.
"As research for his 1975 essay on the Joseph Conrad book, "Image of Africa", Achebe counted all the words spoken in Heart of Darkness by Africans themselves. "There were six!" he tells me, laughing luxuriously. The rest of the time Conrad's Africans merely make animal noises, he says, or shriek a lot."
And completely unrelated, while searching for CanCon throwback "Rymes With Orange" on wikipedia I found this list of words in the English Language which do not rhyme, which include orange, silver, purple and month.
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