Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.