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 ACHEBEThere is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
More Chinua Achebe Quotes
-
-
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens – whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
When a mad man walks naked, it is his kinsmen who feel shame, not himself.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it’s far removed from your situation.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
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.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?
CHINUA ACHEBE -
Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
CHINUA ACHEBE -
Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.
CHINUA ACHEBE