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The problem with leaderless up...

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!

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

Nigeria has had a complicated ...

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

A functioning, robust democrac...

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Chinua Achebe 248 quotes

But I liked Yeats! That wild I...

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

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I've had trouble now and again...

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

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When a tradition gathers enoug...

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

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My parents were early converts...

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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People say that if you find wa...

People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.

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When the British came to Ibo l...

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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Compromise, if not the spice o...

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.

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One of the truest tests of int...

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

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No man can deny that Chief the...

No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was
the most approachable politician in the country.

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Okonwko was well known through...

Okonwko was well known throughout the nine villages and even
beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements.

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People create stories create p...

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

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A man who makes trouble for ot...

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

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They have not always elected t...

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

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Democracy is not something you...

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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Stories serve the purpose of c...

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

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The only thing we have learnt ...

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

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When suffering knocks at your ...

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....