Have you not heard that when two brothers fight a stranger reaps the harvest? - Chinua Achebe

After the incident of the leopard skin Chike lost some of his eagerness for crossing the Niger. He did not see how he could obtain one shilling without stealing or begging.

It is the storyteller who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.

الرجل الذي يُبدي احتراماً للعظماء إنما يمهد الطريق لعظمته هو