4 Quotes Tagged: nigeria

Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They say
he is looking for the spirit of Independence.’‘They say he is looking for himself.’‘For his own
spirit.’‘Which he lost when the white man came.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer in the chest - without asking to be paid.

Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.