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There has been a way of seeing Africa in terms of poverty and conflict which has become a kind of shorthand for the continent that still persists today.

— Zeinab Badawi

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If you are always guided by passion and compassion, you will truly have a life of meaning.

Achebe gave a voice to Africans for generations to come, including my own.

If situations arise where people feel that they have grievances, such grievances should be dealt with in the appropriate way with full transparency, using all the proper governance structures at hand.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head

For a long time it was the view that because Africa didn't always write, or have written document for his history that means Africa didn’t document its history. That is not true

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We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have always known.

Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook (1962)

It is better to be poor and walk in integrity than to be stupid and speak lies.

Solomon

If a poor person envies a rich person, he is no better than the rich person.

Leo Tolstoy

The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.

Emil Cioran The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

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