Skillz Ojogan

“Children left their old parents at home and scattered in all directions in search of money. It was hard on an old woman with eight children. It was like having a river and yet washing one’s hands with spittle.”
― Chinua Achebe, The African Trilogy

“It’s true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother’s hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland. Your mother is there to protect you. She is buried there. And that is why we say that mother is supreme.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“Have you not heard that when two brothers fight a stranger reaps the harvest?”
― Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God

“But let the slave who sees another cast into a shallow grave know that he will be buried in the same way when his day comes.”
― Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God