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Nimi Wariboko Quotes

born 1962 Nigeria

Nimi Wariboko (born April 4, 1962) is an academic and Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University, United States.He was born in Abonnema, Rivers State, Nigeria.

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You cannot create a good society if you just tinker with the administrative structures alone.

We need revolutionaries, people who are ready to change the system.

But there is the second part called the soul-craft (moral formation): the virtues and morality for human flourishing.

I let my passion decide what I have to do.

I believe a new seed of Nigerians will arise to initiate the turnaround of the angel of history that represents Nigeria.

We have been sleeping for a long time, and it doesn’t matter how long that has been. Our day will begin when we wake up.

The urgent task is this: How do we create a system that will flow out of our inherited wisdom or indigenous systems?

If you set up a structure and is not working for the country, and has become an obstacle to human flourishing, it needs to be amended.

The quest for the truth, the quest to engage Africa’s problems, whether at the theoretical level, at the abstract level, or the concrete level that is responsible for my working in many fields.

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