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- People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your…
- 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…
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
- When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different…
- 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…
- A man of worth never gets up to unsay what he said yesterday.
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