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
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe
A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. – Chinua Achebe
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
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, lifes big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics. – Rainn Wilson