Chinua Achebe

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. ”

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. ”

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender. ”

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. ”

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high. ”

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. ”

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. ”

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ”

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. ”

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. ”