If one finger brings oil it soils the others.
CHINUA ACHEBEWhen brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate.
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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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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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When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth
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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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Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
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If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.
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The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.
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Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.
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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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Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.
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Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity.
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When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
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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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Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.
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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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