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"Everywhere one looks in this country, you see the hypocrisy of many. But we know those who really paid the price for democracy."

— Odia Ofeimun

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I have come down to tell my story by the same fireside around which my people are gathered… And I must tell my story to nudge and awaken them that sleep among my people.

Nigeria is no longer appropriately described as just a geographical expression. It has evolved into a nation over the decades since around the 1960s, despite some Nigerians' reluctance to acknowledge this.

I do not claim to be, I am a writer
guerrilla-happy in unhappy times
pacing the common morality
of truth tougher than fear.

"A nation is defined by its cultural expression and a sense of self that includes all its people. Viewing Nigeria as just a country implies it is only a geographical area with people within its borders."

I let the Lagoon teach me
to forget street names
in order to gulp whole cities
like a glass of kola wine.

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The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

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The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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