Share Facebook Twitter Email WhatsApp Copy Link In the new African renaissance, we place great emphasis on the presentation of history. Our history needs to be written as the history of our society, not as the story of European adventures.
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
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
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