Status Updates From Africa's Tarnished Name

“Nigeria needs help. Nigerians have their work cut out for them - to coax this unruly child along the path of useful creative development. We are the parents of Nigeria, not vice versa. A generation will come, if we do our work patiently and well — and given luck — a generation that will call Nigeria father or mother. But not yet.”

“… the fashionable claim made by even writers that literature can do nothing to alter our social and political condition. Of course it can.” p.16

“My own theory is that he needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others.” p.16