Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe
When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt. – Chinua Achebe
People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats the time to do something about it, not when its around your neck. – Chinua Achebe
Art is mans constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. – Chinua Achebe
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey