The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.

The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.

If the economy of a country collapses completely and the hospitals are no longer able to function as hospitals, it will be very difficult to tell every doctor to stay home to work without drugs, to work without equipment. You might tell some to stay but there a lot of young people who are at the beginning of their careers who would be very difficult to persuade.

No man however great is greater than his people

There is no story that is not true.