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Nigerian Quotes by Chinua Achebe
- The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water…
- Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people – mothers, children, babies, civilians – lost their lives as a result of…
- The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.
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