Author: Chinua Achebe

Quotes

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

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

- Chinua Achebe

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.

- Chinua Achebe

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

- Chinua Achebe

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

- Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

- Chinua Achebe

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