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Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.

Chinua Achebe

Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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Apology Man Perspective Procrastination
The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.
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Dance Mask Place Stand World Yourself
Charity is the opium of the privileged.
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Charity Opium Privilege
If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.
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Easy Leadership Manufacture Preparation Reason Yourself
Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Animal Frog Known Life See Yourself
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.
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Himself Man Trouble
If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
There is no story that is not true.
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One Liner Story True
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
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Motivational Shine Stand Sun
Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.
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Discover Finding Fulfill Generation Mission Need
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Damage Repair Time
Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.
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Art Conversation Eat Word
When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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Man Watch Young
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
No matter how prosperous a man was, if he was unable to rule his women and his children (and especially his women) he was not really a man.
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Man Prosperity Rule Woman
We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.
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Break Hurt Man Neck Seek
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
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Brother Fools Treat Worst
As a rule I don’t like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
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Creativity Love Purpose Rule Suffering
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
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Fake Myself Religion Story Truth
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
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Dance Finding Music Self Love Yourself
Now one of the changes that must come to Africa is the idea of limited rule, I mean in term of how long one leader can stay in power. The era of president for life is not gone yet but it is on its way out and that is one of the problems with Mugabe and others.
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Change Ideas Leadership Limitation Power Problem Stay
A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.
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Children Family Man Sex Tribe Woman World
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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Carry Himself Man Wisdom
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.
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Confirm Failure Head People See

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities.

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