“Africa and indeed Nigeria has always been a paradox, an inexplicable contraction of a blessed land with a poor masses” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa. — Nwankwo Kanu Copy Share Image
“An enlightened and empowered generation is the key to our development in Nigeria and indeed in Africa” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
Whenever I go back home to Nigeria now, I always bring a bag full of Manchester City shirts for the kids. — Kelechi Iheanacho Copy Share Image
In Nigeria, financial services, telecoms, and entertainment have driven growth more than oil. — Oscar N. Onyema Copy Share Image
“To achieve this incredible feat of building Nigeria, we must all truly desire to see it happen” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
“There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
There has always been a strange dissonance between the public and the private in Nigeria. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So we didn't go with a mission. It started… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In Nigeria, you have to have sports channels to watch that but not everyone can afford it. My parents couldn't afford that… — Odion Ighalo Copy Share Image
I always say in my camps in Africa, in everything we do, 'My name is Masai and I'm from Nigeria.' My name… — Masai Ujiri Copy Share Image
When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being… — Bruce Beresford Copy Share Image
Nigeria is a great footballing nation and deserves to assume her rightful place in Africa and world football and I am keen… — Alex Iwobi Copy Share Image
When I go back home now, when I go back to Nigeria now, I get off the plane in Lagos and I… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
You go to conferences, and your fellow African intellectuals - and even heads of state - they all say: 'Nigeria is a… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
“To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're… — Valerie Owens Copy Share Image
It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The point is, that the function of the novel seems to be changing; it has become an outpost of journalism; we read… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
We have partnered with hospitals. We do check-ups. We talk to the parents - we educate them - and at the same… — Nwankwo Kanu Copy Share Image
People just think Africa is this one thing. So if you're from Nigeria, then you're the same as somebody from Kenya; not… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
The best herb I smoke in Jamaica and Africa. African - Rasclot! Them people cure it in a banana. In a banana… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
“Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
It is clear that several countries, in the Balkans for example, need to be considered countries of safe origin. But others like,… — Paolo Gentiloni Copy Share Image
My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“I wish I could write their individual stories in the book of our lives with indelible ink, because we cannot compel the… — Hemley Boum Copy Share Image
What has happened to Africa is very severe. We are talking about the collapse of this and the collapse of that, of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
If in the past, you didn't cry out when thousands of protesters were killed and injured by Turkey, Egypt and Libya, when… — Hillel Neuer Copy Share Image
Those who are talking sharia in Nigeria are really just politicians exploiting what they think is available. But if it should turn… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
![“It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In…” quote by Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ff5/rem-koolhaas-5371_africa_it-was-a-book-george-packer-written-on-o_3159314.jpg)
