I began to ask serious questions. Why was no African thought fit by the missionaries to be a full-fledged bishop with European priests under him?…Nnamdi Azikiwe
Do we wish to dispute that apartheid South Africa did correspond overwhelmingly to a denial of humanity?Wole Soyinka
Just what is African, for a start, about any section of that continent that arrogantly considers any change of faith an apostacy, punishable even by death? What is African about religious intolerance and deadly fanaticism?Wole Soyinka
Must the psychopathic opportunists of a revolutionary struggle also become beneficiaries of the balm of victory?Wole Soyinka
Fanaticism remains the greatest carrier of the spores of fear, and the rhetoric of religion, with the hysteria it so readily generates, is fast becoming the readiest killing device of contemporary timesWole Soyinka
I am against any government which permits, under the guise of an emergency, the persecution of innocent menWole Soyinka
Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress truthWole Soyinka
Poverty is not the real problem of the modern world. For we have the knowledge and resources which could enable us to overcome poverty. The real problem – the thing which creates misery, wars and hatred among men – is the division of mankind into rich and poorJulius Nyerere
