A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

If you were to loose the habit of making the effort to get the book and read the words one by one you would have lost something terribly important. So I think that we have a task to ensure that this doesn't happen.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

The Novelist As Teacher”: “I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that their past – with all its imperfections – was not one long night of savagery from which the first Europeans acting on God’s behalf delivered them.

The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.