african authors

Don't turn around in circles for making circles do not equate making progress.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Don't you think our society is designed to kill in that way? Of course, you've surely heard about those tiny fish in the rivers of Brazil which attack the swimmer by the thousands, eat him up in a few moments in quick little mouthfuls and leave only a perfectly clean skeleton behind? So, that's the way they're constituted. 'Do you want a clean life, like everyone else?' Of course the answer is yes. How could you not? 'Fine. We'll clean you up. Here's a job, here's a family, here's some organized leisure.' And the little teeth bite into the flesh, right down to the bone. But I'm being unfair. I shouldn't have said, 'the way they're constituted', because after all, it's our way, too: it's a case of who strips whom.

Albert Camus

Drown those degrading thoughts.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Eschew evil and it's machinations.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Forget yesterday, Act on Today and Get a hold on tomorrow.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

God takes us through life's journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

Have the best course for all your actions.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

I’ll never forget the magic of our Saturday nights. Special moments carved in my mind by you the sculptor of my love. Let’s dance the night away. Who needs music, when your heart already sings to me.

~ Fidelis O Mkparu (2016)

In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the Whitman? No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in the heart. The oath is the water sprinkled on a man's head at baptism

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered in the chest - without asking to be paid.

Chinua Achebe

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