“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
“Prescription of the correct cure is dependent on a rigorous analysis of the reality.”
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
“The present predicaments of Africa are often not a matter of personal choice: they arise from a historical situation. Their solutions are not so much a matter of personal decision as that of a fundamental social transformation of the structures of our societies starting with a real break with imperialism and its internal ruling allies. Imperialism and its comprador alliances in Africa can never develop the continent.”
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
― Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
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