“Writing has always been a serious business for me. I felt it was a moral obligation. A major concern of the time was the absence of the African voice. Being part of that dialogue meant not only sitting at the table but effectively telling the African story from an African perspective - in full earshot of the world.”
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
“And theories are no more than fictions which help us to make sense of experience and which are subject to disconfirmation when their explanations are no longer adequate.”
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“Procrastination is a lazy man's apology.”
― Anthills of the Savannah
― Anthills of the Savannah
“There is a moral obligation, I think, not to ally oneself with power against the powerless.”
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
― There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra
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