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What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.

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Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.

Books, like one's children, have a way of growing up rather fast. In the process, they spring surprises on their unsuspecting parent!

One sad tendency in Nigerian politics is the habit of arguing that one mediocre politician has a better record than another mediocre colleague.

In a country of more than a hundred and fifty million people, the self-styled party of change is apparently unable to find any governorship aspirant untouched by scandal or the appearance of it.

I wish we were a country where universal objection to corruption was the norm. We are far, very far from that.

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