“What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether pe...” — Chinua Achebe Quote

“What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.”

“The relationship with my people, the Nigerian people, is very good. My relationship with the rulers has always been problematic.”

“Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.”

“We think there's nothing like sunlight to mobilize and energize citizens to demand change of their elected officials.”

“I'm always trying to invite citizens to participate in the process of public decision-making.”

“More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power by corporate interests, but as the retreat of citizens to private life and private space, screened from solidarity with strangers and increasingly afraid or even unable to imagine acting in public.”