"A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.“

-Chinua Achebe

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"In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out."

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