Chinua Achebe Needs Quotations

The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a very bad light and Africans in very lurid terms. The reason for this had to do with the need to justify the slave trade and slavery.

Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.