410 Quotes by Chinua Achebe

Nobody can teach me who I am.

Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

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

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

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.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.