Leadership Quotes by Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership,

— Chinua Achebe

If you have leaders who are prepared to incite group against group it is very easy to manufacture reasons and excuses.

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Chinua Achebe

“villages that their leaders came together to save themselves.”

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Chinua Achebe

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

— Chinua Achebe

A good leader for instance is somebody like Nelson Mandela. I do not have seen such people coming every generation, maybe every…

— Chinua Achebe

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of…

— Chinua Achebe

I think Africa is slowly learning - and painfully - that importance of insisting on responsible leadership. It will come eventually, and…

— Chinua Achebe

“direction, towards a world of bad systems, bad leadership, and bad followership. The question then is, How do we redirect our steps…

— Chinua Achebe

Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing…

— Chinua Achebe

Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they…

— Chinua Achebe

The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or…

— Chinua Achebe

Good leaders, competent leaders must see it as primary task to create friendliness. This something within the scope of most people. Now…

— Chinua Achebe

What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing.…

— Chinua Achebe

If I say look unless you change your leaders I will not give you any aid, you are likely to have people…

— Chinua Achebe

“Most writers who are beginners, if they are honest with themselves, will admit that they are praying for a readership as they…

— Chinua Achebe