Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said - or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.

The world is large,” said Okonkwo. “I have even heard that in some tribes a man’s children belong to his wife and her family.” “That cannot be,” said Machi. “You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them.

Those whose kernels were cracked by benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.

I'm sure if one turned one's mind back from grandiose faults to what is happening to the average man or woman or child in the rural areas, we will probably find that's where the energy for development is.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

When a new saying gets to the land of empty men, they lose their heads over it.