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✵ 16. november 1930 – 21. marec 2013
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“Let us give them a portion of the Evil Forest. They boast about victory over death. Let us give them a real battlefield in which to show their victory.”

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Chinua Achebe kniha Things Fall Apart

[...] They offered them as much of the Evil Forest as they cared to take. And to their great amazement the missionaries thanked them and burst into song.
Zdroj: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 17 (p. 139)

“We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.”

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Chinua Achebe kniha Things Fall Apart

[said Obierika]
"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"
Zdroj: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 15 (p. 130)

“Proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.”

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Chinua Achebe kniha Things Fall Apart

Zdroj: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1