3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don’t always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe I’ve had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe Art is man’s constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn’t perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
3 December 2020 Chinua Achebe The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
