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Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.

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You always assume for some strange reason that you need three meals a day.

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There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Naturally, we stress it, break it up, reassemble it to suit our own needs. But it is there - a source of vital strength.

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I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

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History teaches us to beware of the excitation of the liberated and the injustices that often accompany their righteous thirst for justice.

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Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of.

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Some of the greatest uprisings and consequent civil wars in Mexico have centered squarely on the ownership of land.

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Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.

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Politics, I believe, is a full-time occupation.

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My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.

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Biography

Nationality: Nigerian

Type: Dramatist

Born: July 13th, 1934

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