I have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.
Chinua AchebeMy position is that serious and good art has always existed to help, to serve, humanity. Not to indict. I donโt see how art can be called art if its purpose is to frustrate humanity. To make humanity uncomfortable, yes. But intrinsically to be against humanity, that I donโt take.
Chinua AchebeDemocracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.
Chinua AchebeColonial rule means that power, initiative is taken away from you by somebody else who makes your decisions. If that goes on long enough, beyond one generation, then the habit of self-rule is forgotten. People are no longer able to realize what it means. To be dependant for a hundred years! And suddenly when this thing ends there is nobody who actually knows how to set about running the country.
Chinua Achebe