Top 10 Famous Nigerian Quotes and their Authors

Hello Hintloadites, Today I decide to bring to you some famous Nigerian Quotes.

The Nigerian Famous Quotes are as follow:

v  1. Nigeria is not a nation. It is a mere geographical expression. There are no “Nigerians” in the same sense as there are “English”, “Welsh”, or “French”. The word “Nigerian” is merely a distinctive appellation to distinguish those who live within the boundaries of Nigeria and those who do not. [From path to Nigerian Freedom by ObafemiAwolow]

v 2. One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. [Chinua Achebe]

v 3. Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practising again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. [Chinua Achebe]

v  4. The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn noting from experience. [Chinua Achebe]

v  5. Nigeria is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be. [Chinua Achebe]

v  6. They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit. [Chinua Achebe]

v  7. People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they failto see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. It’s not viewed as serious continent. It’s a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people don’t do what common sense demands. [Chinua Achebe]

v  8. Let’s say there are prospects for a new Nigeria, but I don’t think we have a new Nigeria yet. [Wole Soyinka]

v  9. Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done. [Wole Soyinka]

v  10. I have one advice to give to our politicians. If they have decided to destroy our national unity, then they should summon a round-table conference to decided how our national assets should be divided before they seal their doom by satisfying their lust for office. I make this suggestion because it is better for us and many admirers abroad that we should disintegrate in peace and not in pieces. Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I will venture prediction that the experience of the Democratic Republic of the Congo will be a child’s play if ever it comes to our turn to play such a tragic role. [NnamdiAzikiwe], December 1964.