Quotes about African authors

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Don't blow off another's candle for it won't make yours shine brighter. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Don't set your goals by what other people deem important. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Prince and the Pauper
Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up — Sahndra Fon Dufe
A PHD is not the end of education. Education exists even among the bees who feed their queen only with the purest — Sahndra Fon Dufe
I’ll never forget the magic of our Saturday nights. Special moments carved in my mind by you the sculptor of my love. Le — ~ Fidelis O Mkparu (2016), author of ‘Love’s affliction’
Inside, I screamed for help but the words knew better than to escape my lips. — Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power. — Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
VOA no longer felt like a sanctuary but rather a mirage and we were desert wanderers. — Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
It was as if hell itself had taken human form and come up from the abyss. — Brima Lamin & Chantale Wesley-Lamin, The Walk - Memoir of a Liberian Civil War Survivor, 2016
The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby. — Duop Chak Wuol
Looking at a king's mouth, ' said an old man, 'one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast. — Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murderer — Chinua Achebe, A Man of the People
In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered — Chinua Achebe, A Man of the People
The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul. — Ondjaki, The Whistler
The endlessness of the extent of that whistle resulted, without a doubt, also in an enormous metaphysical knowledge of t — Ondjaki, The Whistler
Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How c — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Wizard of the Crow
Africa PRODUCES what it does NOT CONSUME and CONSUMES what it does NOT PRODUCE. — Ali A. Mazrui, Africa, The Next Thirty Years
No matter how great the love, the pain, the sadness, the power of a heart, no one can recreate the sea. Nowhere else. — Ondjaki, The Whistler
The morning was, therefore, a mixture of a plenitude of densities, from the presence of the placid birds, to the mundane — Ondjaki, The Whistler
... after daybreak is when I will already have died. At that moment I will only know of beautiful things: the certaintie — Ondjaki, The Whistler