If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.

I prefer to go on trying all kinds of things, not to be told, This is the way it is done.

A debt may get mouldy, but it never decays.

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

Africa is people" may seem too simple and too obvious to some of us. But I have found in the course of my travels through the world that the most simple things can still givwe us a lot of trouble, even the brightest among us: this is particularly so in matters concerning Africa.