The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. There is nothing basically wrong with the Nigerian land or climate or water or air or anything else. The Nigerian problem is the unwillingness or inability of its leaders to rise to the responsibility, to the challenge of personal example which are the hallmarks of true leadership.
Chinua AchebeThere's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.
Chinua AchebeIt always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.
Chinua AchebeI have found that I work best when I am at home in Nigeria. But one learns to work in other places.
Chinua Achebe