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Pius Adesanmi
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“As a public intellectual, my only job is to think for Nigeria and Africa.”
Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think you are also super-imposing the typical Nigerian scenario of cross-over intellection on the whole of Africa.”
Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the hand that holds the feeding bottle to your mouth says it is tired, the thing to do is to start an urgent reflection over the existence of alternative feeding bottles hitherto neglected.”
Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The storyteller appeals to the mind and appeals ultimately to generations and generations and generations.”
Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For Africa, the poem should read autochthonous people clutching alien gods. I have been a very close observer of the wind of Pentecostalism blowing over the continent”
Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we define the political in very generous, broad terms, yes there is always an intermesh between the religious and the political. Don't forget that Christianity's entrance into Africa was intensely political insofar as the missionarization of the continent was the precursive event to formal colonization.”
Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I assume that by our educational systems you are talking exclusively about the continent. Language is not the most pan-African step our educational systems in Africa can or should take. It should begin by enhancing processes of African co-presence in University classrooms throughout the continent.”
Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source