More From Chinua Achebe
- "Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively."
- "My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel."
- "The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience."
More In Age
- "A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day."― Jim Bishop
- "He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it."― Voltaire
- "No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages."― Judy Biggert