African-authors Quote by Ijeoma Umebinyuo

“We must see the new Nigeria The Nigeria We Want we must accept personal responsibility to build it”

— Fela Durotoye

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.

— Chinua Achebe

“To achieve this incredible feat of building Nigeria, we must all truly desire to see it happen”

— Fela Durotoye

Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out…

— Francis Bacon

“If I had hoped to skirt the sense of being a stranger in the world by coming to Ghana, then disappointment awaited me. And…

— Saidiya V. Hartman

“In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds”

— Fela Durotoye

“We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing from the…

— Kathleen Jamie

“so if you go to a King Tut exhibit someday and notice cracks or burn marks on the artifacts, or maybe a statue with…

— serpent's shadow Rick Riordan

“There are other letters, from the heirs of fictional magnates, from the widows of oil barons, from the legal representatives of incarcerated generals, and…

— Teju Cole

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and…

— Martin Filler

I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and…

— Paul Robeson

“It is more than their land that you take away from the people whose native land you take. It is their past as well,…

— Anonymous