When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
CHINUA ACHEBE
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When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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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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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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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
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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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When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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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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I think not just Nigeria but I think the whole of Africa has to turn back to the rural areas and that’s where the majority of the citizens are and that’s where the engine of of development has to be found.
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A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
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There is no story that is not true.
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When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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