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Pius Adesanmi Quotes

1972–2019

Pius Adesanmi (27 February 1972 – 10 March 2019) was a Nigerian-Canadian professor, writer, literary critic, and satirist. He was the author of the award-winning book You're Not a Country, Africa! and a prominent public intellectual who advocated for good governance in Nigeria.

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I think you are also super-imposing the typical Nigerian scenario of cross-over intellection on the whole of Africa.

The storyteller appeals to the mind and appeals ultimately to generations and generations and generations.

As a public intellectual, my only job is to think for Nigeria and Africa.

When the hand that holds the feeding bottle to your mouth says it is tired, the thing to do is to start an urgent reflection over the existence of alternative feeding bottles hitherto neglected.

For Africa, the poem should read autochthonous people clutching alien gods. I have been a very close observer of the wind of Pentecostalism blowing over the continent

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