It always surprised him, he went on to say, because he never had thought of Africa as having that kind of stuff, you know. - Chinua Achebe

I do not see that it is necessary for any people to prove to another that they build cathedrals or pyramids before they can be entitled to peace and safety.

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.

Eneke the bird says that since men have learned to shoot without missing, he has learned to fly without perching.