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We have so little consciousness of a time perspective. We act and react as if there is only today, no yesterday, no tomorrow.

— 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.

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.

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.

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