“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.”
— Chinua Achebe
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“The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”
— Chinua Achebe
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“But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.”
— Chinua Achebe
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“A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.”
— Chinua Achebe
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