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Akinjide Osuntokun Quotes

born 1942 Nigeria

Akinjide Osuntokun (born 26 April 1942), commonly known as Jide Osuntokun, is a Nigerian historian, academic and diplomat.He is Professor Emeritus of History and International Relations at the University of Lagos and at Redeemer's University, and served as Nigeria's first Ambassador to the unified Federal Republic of Germany from 1991 to 1995. He is an Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).

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The dust of history presumably would have settled and emotional trauma would somehow have been healed because time is a healer.

Democracy is the best way to move the country forward like other developed countries in the world, but we need a patriotic leader who has interest of the masses at heart.

This is why it is very important to study the past in order for the present not to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Therefore what happened in the past even though it has implication for the present and for the future does not necessarily determine the trajectory of events in the present.

I was in a group discussing and debating what our statement at the General Assembly plenary session in 1991 in New York should be.

But I thank God it made me to bury myself in my writing, my commitment to whatever the activity I enjoyed, especially writing.

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