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For the nation is a product of history in the sense of historical circumstances and events; and therefore the nation cannot escape from its past.

— Jacob Ade Ajayi

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People of my generation learned how Britannia ruled the world.

Such a nation cannot achieve a sense of purpose or direction or stability, and without them the future is bleak.

We seem to care a little about the past, we have no enduring heroes and we respect no precedents.

The colonial intrusion was nothing more than an episode in the history of Africa.

We lack statesmen with any sense of history. Politics of the moment dominates our life, leaving no room for evaluating achievement or appreciating merit.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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