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Chinua Achebe Quote: “Africa is people” may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.”

201. “Africa is people” may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “But let the slave who sees another cast into a shallow grave know that he will be buried in the same way when his day comes.”

202. “But let the slave who sees another cast into a shallow grave know that he will be buried in the same way when his day comes.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “Ghana and Nigeria resented each other and competed for supremacy in every sphere – politics, academia, sports, you name it.”

203. “Ghana and Nigeria resented each other and competed for supremacy in every sphere – politics, academia, sports, you name it.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That’s not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.”

204. “Americans, it seems to me, tend to protect their children from the harshness of life, in their interest. That’s not the way my people rear their children. They let them experience the world as it is.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day, we would have taken a truly millennial step forward.”

205. “Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day, we would have taken a truly millennial step forward.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “The dispossession that caused my shrillness is in retreat though the marks of its pillage are still everywhere. I can see, in spite of them, that I have come a long way.”

206. “The dispossession that caused my shrillness is in retreat though the marks of its pillage are still everywhere. I can see, in spite of them, that I have come a long way.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death.”

207. “Onye nkuzi ewelu itali piagbusie umuaka. One of the ways an emphasis is laid in Ibo is by exaggeration, so that the teacher in the refrain might not actually have flogged the children to death.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “Clearly there is no moral obligation to write in any particular way. But there is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.”

208. “Clearly there is no moral obligation to write in any particular way. But there is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “Africa never spared those who did what they liked instead of what they had to do.”

209. “Africa never spared those who did what they liked instead of what they had to do.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.”

210. “Orthodoxy whether of the right or of the left is the graveyard of creativity.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “My father used to say that it is the fear of causing offense that makes men swallow poison.”

211. “My father used to say that it is the fear of causing offense that makes men swallow poison.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “A man who asks questions does not lose his way; that is what our fathers taught us.”

212. “A man who asks questions does not lose his way; that is what our fathers taught us.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “Nations enshrine mediocrity as their modus operandi, and create the fertile ground for the rise of tyrants and other base elements of the society, by silently assenting to the dismantling of systems of excellence because they do not immediately benefit one specific ethnic, racial, political, or special-interest group. That, in my humble opinion, is precisely where Nigeria finds itself today!”

213. “Nations enshrine mediocrity as their modus operandi, and create the fertile ground for the rise of tyrants and other base elements of the society, by silently assenting to the dismantling of systems of excellence because they do not immediately benefit one specific ethnic, racial, political, or special-interest group. That, in my humble opinion, is precisely where Nigeria finds itself today!”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “As the saying goes, the unexamined life is not worth-living.”

214. “As the saying goes, the unexamined life is not worth-living.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “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.”

215. “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.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “His mind, never content with shallow satisfactions, crept to the brink of knowing. What kind of power was it if it would never be used?”

216. “His mind, never content with shallow satisfactions, crept to the brink of knowing. What kind of power was it if it would never be used?”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.”

217. “That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “When you have paid a hundred and thirty pounds bride-price and you are only a second-class clerk, you find you haven’t got any more to spare on other women.”

218. “When you have paid a hundred and thirty pounds bride-price and you are only a second-class clerk, you find you haven’t got any more to spare on other women.”

— Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe Quote: “Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with eight children. It was like having a river and yet washing one’s hands with spittle.”

219. “Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with eight children. It was like having a river and yet washing one’s hands with spittle.”

— Chinua Achebe

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