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The media must be used effectively to reach the masses. You have to find a new language in which to address the people and demonstrate what is possible.
Well, some people say I'm pessimistic because I recognize the eternal cycle of evil. All I say is, look at the history of mankind right up to this moment and what do you find?
Biodun Jeyifo (2001)
The descendants of our great forebears...let them symbolize all that is noble in our nation."
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
This whole family business sickens me. Let everybody lead their own lives,"
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
These rites of the dead. I do not know why you take them on,"
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
"I have a particular aversion to being mauled by women
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
A tiger doesn't proclaim his tigritude, he pounces
The Man Died (1972)
My secret is my eternal burden—to pierce the encrustations of soul-deadening habit, and bare the mirror of original nakedness—knowing full well, it is all futility.
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
The totem, my final insult. The final taunt from the human pigs.
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
The guests we were sent are slaves and lackeys. They have only come to undermine our strength. To preach to us how ignoble we are.
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
The very least we can live with is an agreement that does not reduce us to slaves of imposition, but makes us partners of consent.
Climate of Fear (2005)
The accumulated heritage—that is what we are celebrating. Mali. Chaka. Songhai. Glory. Empires.
A Dance of the Forests (1960)
It is time to commence the mental shifts for admittance to yet another irrational world of adults and their discipline
Aké: The Years of Childhood (1981)
Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form....
Climate of Fear (2005)
I go through a long period of gestation before I'm even ready to write.
Moreover, I will admit,
It solves the problem of her bride-price too.
A man must live or fall by his true
Principles. That, I had sworn,
Never to pay.
The Lion and the Jewel (1959)
Sadiku, I am young and brimming; he is spent.
I am the twinkle of a jewel
But he is the hind-quarters of a lion!
The Lion and the Jewel (1959)
It is five full months since last
I took a wife
The Lion and the Jewel (1959)
My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience.
Now what am I thinking of? I must be getting tired. No sensible man burns the house to cook a little yam.
A Dance of the Forests (1960)