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Adiele Afigbo Quotes

1937–2009 Nigeria

Adiele Eberechukwu Afigbo (22 November 1937 – 9 March 2009) was a Nigerian historian known for his work on the history and historiography of Africa, particularly Igbo history and the history of southeastern Nigeria.

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A historian is a clinical student of human experience who seeks to tell the story as it is and to explain it.

The South-East cannot continue releasing discordant signals at the turn of every election.

It is the opinion of many great authorities that every nation or people build its future on its past, that is, a past that has been properly studied and understood, and whose seminal experience has been extracted and redeployed for further use.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Adiele Afigbo (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.