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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
“I once heard that when fear takes possession of the heart of a person, it diminishes them”
― The Fishermen
― The Fishermen
“Do you not know that there is nothing the eye can see that can make it shed the tears of blood? Do you not know that there is no loss we cannot overcome?”
― 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 2020 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.
1,102 books
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73 friends
187 books
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147 friends
174 books
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117 friends
347 books
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40 friends
3 books
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1,448 friends
321 books
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179 friends
342 books
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1,073 friends
96 books
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222 friends
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