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“The early hours are blessed for my ummah [community]”. [Abu Dawud] As an early riser myself, and one who believes
“He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the ideas themselves, and for so many, all that mattered was the willingness to do something. Action led to action, free of any moorings, and the way to be someone, the way to catch the attention of the young and recruit them to one's cause, was to be enraged. It seemed as if the only way this lure of violence could be avoided was by having no causes, by being magnificiently isolated from loyalties. But was that not an ethical lapse graver than rage itself?”
― Open City
― Open City
“I deeply respect American sentimentality, the way one respects a wounded hippo. You must keep an eye on it, for you know it is deadly.”
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“And it is these heavily armed and poorly paid men who are entrusted with the work of protecting the citizenry.”
― Every Day is for the Thief
― Every Day is for the Thief
“I'll tell you why the six million matter so much: it is because the Jews are the chosen people. Forget the Cambodians, forget the American blacks, this is unique suffering. But I reject this idea. It is not a unique suffering. What about the twenty million under Stalin? It isn't better if you are killed for ideological reasons. Death is death. All death is suffering. Others have suffered too, and that is history, suffering.”
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“Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.”
― Things Fall Apart
― Things Fall Apart
Under The Neem Tree - Books By African Auhtors or About Africa
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An international reading club appreciating books by authors of African descent in the continent and in the diaspora.
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