The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
Chinua AchebeI have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.
Chinua AchebeThe trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.
Chinua AchebeWe live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not exactly in their full magnificence, but still strong in their differentness from written stories. Each mode has its ways and methods and rules. They can reinforce each other; this is the advantage my generation has - we can bring to the written story something of that energy of the story told by word of mouth.
Chinua Achebe