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Okey Ndibe
9 quotes
“Remember this: a story that must be told never forgives silence. Speech is the mouth's debt to a story.”
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“What I know are simple truths. I know that the fabric of memory is reinforced by stories, rent by silences. I know that power dreads memory. I know that memory outlasts power's viciousness. I know . . . that a voiceless man is as good as dead.”
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“Books, like one's children, have a way of growing up rather fast. In the process, they spring surprises on their unsuspecting parent!”
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“I wish we were a country where universal objection to corruption was the norm. We are far, very far from that.”
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“In a country of more than a hundred and fifty million people, the self-styled party of change is apparently unable to find any governorship aspirant untouched by scandal or the appearance of it.”
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“One of the joys of being a columnist is to occasionally receive a remarkably cogent response to one of my pieces. Sometimes, the response comes from a reader who agrees with me, but who wishes to shed fresh light on an issue.”
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“One sad tendency in Nigerian politics is the habit of arguing that one mediocre politician has a better record than another mediocre colleague.”
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“There’s nothing more exasperating than to listen to Nigerians, especially public officials or their hirelings, who insist that our country is a coherent entity. These official apologists are quick to euphemize Nigeria’s myriad crises as mere teething problems.”
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“If anybody was in doubt that Nigeria is a contraption maintained to serve the greed of a few, I hope the sordid drama of elections has dispelled it.”
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