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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.

Chinua Achebe

If a child washed his hands, he could eat with kings.
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Children Deep Eat Hands King Value Wash
There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.
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Moral Obligation Power Thinking
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.
CHINUA ACHEBE

Development Finding Rural Thinking
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
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Experience Learning Philosophy 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
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n’ani ji onwe ya: ‘He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.’
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Himself Humanity Moral Practical Stay Value
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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Door Hard Time Himself Knock Suffering Worry
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
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Deep Lizard Philosophy Praise
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
The singer should sing well even if it is merely to himself, rather than dance badly for the whole world.
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Dance Singing World
If you don’t like someone’s story, write your own.
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Inspirational Motivational Writing Yourself
A goat does not eat into a hen’s stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.
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Friendship Goat Hen Stomach
An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.
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Afraid Artist Question Solution Ultimate View
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
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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Finding Neck People Time Water Yourself
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

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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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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