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.

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

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different colour, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.

Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.