No man however great is greater than his people

Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too – If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

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

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

Real tragedy is never resolved. It goes on hopelessly for ever.

My son even if you want to fall, at least fall where your bones can be gathered

The market literature, which was particularly strong in Igboland, in Onitsha, today it is no longer strong. It is one of the victims of the civil war, that market was actually destroyed and at the end of the war a new Nigeria has struggled to come into being and I believe that what is probably going to replace the market literature might be the video, which they have taken to in a big way, creating dramas. So that may be the next thing way we will see coming out of the local basic level in our society.