Nigerian - Writer | November 16, 1930 - March 21, 2013
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.
Chinua Achebe
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The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
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When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
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Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
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Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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