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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examin

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe

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But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry. – Chinua Achebe

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