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Category: Chinua Achebe.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

Democracy, Healthy, Educated

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Learn, Nothing, Only

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

Work, Story, Complicated

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.

Experience, World, People

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.

Good, Thought, Story

I tell my students, it’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What’s more difficult is to identify with someone you don’t see, who’s very far away, who’s a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Door, Color, Yourself

I don’t care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Life, Growing Up, People

I don’t care about age very much.

Care, Very, About

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don’t just turn it off one day.

Day, Tradition, You

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.

Father, Mother, Parents

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it’s a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

Today, People, Remember

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.

english, experience, language