When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
Chinua Achebe

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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.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

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

Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on the surface it's far removed from your situation.