Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be. - Chinua Achebe

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I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

Chinua Achebe

Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

Leader, Leaders, Nigeria, Nigeria Independence, Should

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A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

Come, Home, Man, Men, Moon

To answer oppression with appropriate resistance requires knowledge of two kinds: in the first place, self-knowledge by the victim, which means awareness that oppression exists, an awareness that the victim has fallen from a great height of glory or promise into the present depths; secondly, the victim must know who the enemy is. He must know his oppressor's real name, not an alias, a pseudonym, or a nom de plume!

Know, Mean, Promise, Real, Two, Victim

In dealing with a man who thinks you are a fool, it is good sometimes to remind him that you know what he knows but have chosen to appear foolish for the sake of peace.

Fool, Men, Peace, Sake, Thinking, Thought Provoking

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Glorify, Historian, Historians, Hunters, Lions, Proverb

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Needs, Nobody, Parts, Teach, Thought Provoking, Who I Am

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I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.

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There's the space that you soar into, the space that you sometimes break through to, and hang in. A sort of gasp or gap.

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