Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.
WOLE SOYINKAWhen a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
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Each time I think Ive created time for myself, along comes a throwback to disrupt my private space.
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Some of us – poets are not exactly poets. We live sometimes – beyond the word.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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The man dies in all those that keep silent.
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Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.
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I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.
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And gradually they’re beginning to recognize the fact that there’s nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it’s sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.
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If man cannot, what god dare claim perfection?
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A tiger does not proclaim his tigritude, he pounces.
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I believe that each writer must decide in which language he or she is most comfortable.
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It is the human potentials that interest me. I travel and everywhere I go I am amazed at the presence of Nigerians. The intelligence, integrity, productivity, initiative.
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