Walking with Abel Quotes

“Amadou Hampâté Bâ—do you know him? A great writer!—he said, ‘Knowledge is the only thing you can give away without losing any.”
― Anna Badkhen, Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah

“In Africa, when an old man dies, it’s a library burning,” said Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Mali’s most renowned writer. When a griot died, histories of entire families and empires dissolved underfoot. The world lost gravity.”
― Anna Badkhen, Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah

“Homer said that we ride into the future straddling the horse of time backward, our eyes on the past.”
― Anna Badkhen, Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah