Quote by Chinua Achebe
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Niger

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel. – Chinua Achebe

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