"No Longer at Ease" Quotes
A Nigerian man struggles with the clash between tradition and modernity as he navigates life in the colonial and post-colonial eras.
fiction | 196 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
In this world, it is only the bad that are sure of themselves. The good are full of doubt.
When a man says yes, his chi says yes also.
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
He who cannot dance will say, 'The drum is bad!'
It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort.
The world is a spiritual system.
We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.
But what we need in Africa is not just a body of people who can read and write, but a body of people who can think.
