"People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that's the time to do something about it, not when it's around your neck.“

-Chinua Achebe

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"My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher. He and my mother traveled for thirty-five years to different parts of Igboland, spreading the gospel."

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"When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day."

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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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"Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively."

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"I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders."

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"I don't care about age very much."

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