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“English, although the official language of Nigeria, was a formal language with which strangers and non-relatives addressed you. It had the potency of digging craters between you and your friends or relatives if one of you switched to using it.”
― The Fishermen
― The Fishermen
“The things my brother read shaped him; they became his visions. He believed in them. I have now come to know that what one believes often becomes permanent, and what becomes permanent can be indestructible.”
― The Fishermen
― The Fishermen
“I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them”
― The Fishermen
― The Fishermen
“I'd heard someone say that the end of most things often bears a resemblance - even if faint - to their beginnings”
― The Fishermen
― The Fishermen
“This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later.”
― The Book of Memory
― The Book of Memory
The Sankofa Book Club’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at The Sankofa Book Club’s Year in Books. The good, the bad, the long, the short—it’s all here.
467 books
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1,083 friends
257 books
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130 friends
479 books
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167 friends
339 books
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179 friends
715 books
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59 friends
120 books
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222 friends
441 books
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675 friends
378 books
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164 friends
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