The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.
— Chinua Achebe Modern

Things Fall Apart

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From "The Trouble With Nigeria"

Date / Period

1983

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Strange & Unusual

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