- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I began going to school and learned to read, I encountered stories of other people and other lands.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
- Genocide
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 religion. These are things we should put behind us.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
- Bad Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020