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Chinua Achebe

“We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him.”

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
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