PART I

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.
Chinua Achebe

Nigeria is a West African nation of over
100 million energetic people. It is
endowed with lots of natural resources but
lacks human resources.
Philip Emeagwali

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

I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria
because I have spoken up about the
mistreatment of factions in the country
because of difference in religion. These
are things we should put behind us.
Chinua Achebe

The people you see in Nigeria today have
always lived as neighbors in the same
space for as long as we can remember. So
it's a matter of settling down, lowering the
rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric
is too high.
Chinua Achebe

The work of Nigeria is not complete for as
long as there is any one Nigerian who
goes to bed on empty stomach.
Ibrahim Babangida

You see, I was told stories, we were all
told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to
tell stories that would keep one another
interested, and you weren't allowed to tell
stories that everybody else knew. You had
to dream up new ones.
Ben Okri

Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who
aspire to national leadership must bring
their own visions, views and styles to the
business of reforming Nigeria, and the
search for solutions.
Ibrahim Babangida

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With
our human and material resources, we
shall strive to eradicate poverty from our
country.
Olusegun Obasanjo

There isn't a class structure in Nigeria;
there's a tribal structure and prestige as
far as money is concerned.
Sade Adu

I divide my time between Columbia,
Maryland, and Lagos, Nigeria.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Nigeria is like everywhere, really: there are
some beautiful places that have been
invested in and others that haven't been.
Tinie Tempah

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in
Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-
growing economies in the world. In Nigeria
alone there are 100 million people with
mobile phones. In total, 300 million
Africans - five times the population of
Britain - are in the middle class.
David Miliband

To meet the expectations of the majority of
our people, and to open up new vistas of
economic opportunity so that the
aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair
chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there
must be a truly committed leadership in a
democratic Nigeria.
Ibrahim Babangida

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of
you, before the whole world and before
God, that I will devote all my energy and
all I possess in my power to serve the
people of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo

I live half the year in Nigeria, the other half
in the U.S. But home is Nigeria - it always
will be. I consider myself a Nigerian who
is comfortable in the world. I look at it
through Nigerian eyes.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria
twice but stood by the country in its fight
against dictatorship and injustice.
Olusegun Obasanjo

There has always been a strange
dissonance between the public and the
private in Nigeria.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Our choice of a reform framework dictated
that we looked at the fundamental
assumptions that had driven Nigeria's
economy, society and policy hitherto and
to seek ways of either abandoning or
transcending those assumptions and their
supporting institutions.
Ibrahim Babangida

I've often dreamed about going back to
Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion.
It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
Hugo Weaving

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it
was such a culture shock, growing up in
Australia and suddenly being the only
white man in this unit full of black men.
Bruce Beresford

In primary school in south-eastern
Nigeria, I was taught that Hosni Mubarak
was the president of Egypt. I learned the
same thing in secondary school. In
university, Mubarak was still president of
Egypt. I came to assume, subconsciously,
that he - and others like Paul Biya in
Cameroon and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya
- would never leave.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I
don't belong anywhere in particular. I've
often dreamed about going back to
Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion.
It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
Hugo Weaving

The Nigerians have been very
instrumental in preserving stability in
Sierra Leone. They have done this at
considerable cost in dollars and Nigerian
lives. The US should encourage Nigeria to
stay in Sierra Leone.
Ed Royce

My joy knows no bounds... I will devote all
my energy and all the powers available to
me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.
Olusegun Obasanjo

Well, Nigeria has played a constructive
role in peacekeeping in various parts of
West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria
itself is democratic and respects human
rights, it too may well be a source of
much greater instability as political
repression limits the ability of the people
of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.
Susan Rice

My mom, she's from Ireland, coached
tennis in Nigeria when she was a
missionary and turned me on to it when I
was young.
Donal Logue

This has a lot to do with the unrest in
Nigeria, but also with the production loss
after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico,
the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and
the decline in Venezuelan output since
2002.
Daniel Yergin

When you talk about the oil wealth you
compare nations. There are some nations
with less than five million people. Nigeria
has 150 million people. I cannot say that
all the money earned from oil since 1958,
when the first drop of oil was exported
from this country to date, that the money
has been effectively used.
Goodluck Jonathan

In Nigeria, if you say you're a singer,
people say, 'So what? Everyone sings.' In
Germany, my voice stood out more.
Nneka

My heart's desire is to be recognised in
Nigeria.
Nneka

Nigeria is the most populous country in
Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic
governance it will be an anchor for all of
West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
Ed Royce

Listening to the type of music I grew up
with, like King Sunny Ade, Fela Kuti and
experiencing different things and
conditions and hardship, as well as the
good times in Nigeria, has definitely
carved me into who I am.
Nneka

If you're able to grow up in Nigeria and go
through certain things, you're able to
tackle anything around the world because
you're able to live wherever, if you can
survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or
Niger Delta, as far as I'm concerned.
Nneka

I am making this trip to Africa because
Washington is an international city, just
like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I
am an international symbol. Can you deny
that to Africa?
Marion Berry

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PART II

1. “Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what
they should be.” – Chinua Achebe
2. “Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s
a lot of work to be done.” – Wole Soyinka
3. “The magician and the politician have much in
common: they both have to draw our attention away
from what they are really doing.” – Ben Okri
4. “They have not always elected the best leaders,
particularly after a long period in which they have not
used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the
habit.” – Chinua Achebe
5. Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a
self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free
till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is
worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to
go into the water till he had learned to swim. Thomas
Macaulay
6. We are free, truly free, when we don’t need to rent our
arms to anybody in order to be able to lift a piece of
bread to our mouths. Ricardo Flores Magon
7. It is the love of country that has lighted and that keeps
glowing the holy fire of patriotism. J. Horace McFarland
8. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill,
we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any
hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure
the survival and success of liberty. John F. Kennedy
9. “I have one advice to give to our politicians. If they
have decided to destroy our national unity, then they
should summon a round-table conference to decide how
our national assets should be divided before they seal
their doom by satisfying their lust for office. I make this
suggestion because it is better for us and many
admirers abroad that we should disintegrate in peace
and not in pieces. Should the politicians fail to heed this
warning, then I will venture the prediction that the
experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will
be a child’s play if ever it comes to our turn to play such
a tragic role.” — Nnamdi Azikiwe, December 1964, “A
Dawn Address” As reported in Kirk Greene’s book (page
21]
10. “People go to Africa and confirm what they already
have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there
in front of them. This is what people have come to
expect. It’s not viewed as a serious continent. It’s a
place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where
people don’t do what common sense demands.” –
Chinua Achebe
11. “Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical
expression. There are no ‘Nigerians’ in the same sense
as there are ‘English,’ ‘Welsh,’ or ‘French.’ The word
‘Nigerian’ is merely a distinctive appellation to
distinguish those who live within the boundaries of
Nigeria and those who do not.” [From Path to Nigerian
Freedom by Obafemi Awolowo]
12. “We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us
in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans.
And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that
our dream was our fate. It’s just that providence had
other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans
a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it
were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we
couldn’t have expected.” – Ben Okri
13. “The worst realities of our age are manufactured
realities. It is therefore our task, as creative
participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The
fact of possessing imagination means that everything
can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it” – Ben Okri
14. “One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to
be compromised.” – Chinua Achebe
15. “Democracy is not something you put away for ten
years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start
practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule
ourselves again.” – Chinua Achebe
16. “The only thing we have learnt from experience is that
we learn nothing from experience.” – Chinua Achebe
17. “Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I
don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet.” – Wole Soyinka
18. “Nigeria can no longer remain a potential” – Jide Salu

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