Maxioms by Chinua Achebe
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what read more
People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It's not viewed as a serious continent. It's a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don't do what common sense demands.
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and read more
Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to read more
When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity read more
The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.
No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was
the most approachable politician in the country.
No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was
the most approachable politician in the country.
