Share Facebook Twitter Email WhatsApp Copy Link Physical enslavement is tragic enough; but the mental and spiritual bondage that makes people despise their own culture is much worse, for it makes them lose their self-respect and, with it, faith in themselves.
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