When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you dont just turn it off one day. – Chinua Achebe
Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively. – Chinua Achebe
Ive had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us. – Chinua Achebe
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