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

— Zeinab Badawi

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On why Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe inspires her.

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

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.

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.

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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