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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

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.
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Debt Decay
When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.
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Competition Coward Fight Hungry Man See
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
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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Art Creation Effort Himself Reality
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
The language of young men is pull down and destroy; but an old man speaks of conciliation.
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Destroy Language Man Old Repair Talk Togetherness Young
When we are comfortable and inattentive, we run the risk of committing grave injustices absentmindedly.
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Attention Comfortable Commitment Grave Risk Run
If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
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Fingering Oneself
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
It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.
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Better Brave Coward Live Praise Worth
One reason why I am quite angry with what is happening in Nigeria today is that everything has collapsed. If I decide to go back now, there will be so many problems – where will I find the physical therapy and other things that I now require?
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Angry Collapse Quit Reason Therapy Trouble
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
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Coward Fight Run Time War
A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.
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Children Milk Mom Pay
Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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Government Leadership Politics
What a man does not know is greater than he.
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Greatness Himself Man
When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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Brother Death Fight Profit Stranger

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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