My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Africa is to Europe as the picture is to Dorian Gray-a carrier onto whom the master unloads his physical & moral deformities

When I think of the standing, the importance and the erudition of all these people who see nothing about racism in Heart of Darkness, I'm convinced that we must really be living in different worlds.

This is why I find racism impossible, because this is against humanity.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.