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People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, thats t

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

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The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you dont always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse! – Chinua Achebe

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

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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasnt perhaps completely whole, that something was left out. – Chinua Achebe

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