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A Man without a nation
A Man without a nation
“And on the subject of 'There was a country: I want to congratulate Achebe, for his infamous rhetorics and psychological psychic of Biafra state which elude average Ibo man or their powerful political connections with commerce and trade or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted succession or secessionists; He {Achebe} who have tried to re-write the history of our country with delusion and ethnical sentiments; This thought of arousing the long pains of yesteryears have brought all historians and active participants to arcs of time , defending the course of our nationhood and on which side of history we belong
So the Nigeria I loved still exists, if not in Aso rock or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. "The Nigeria I love still exists .”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Writing By 'Jide Adesina
“And on the subject of 'There was a country: I want to congratulate Achebe, for his infamous rhetorics and psychological psychic of Biafra state which elude average Ibo man or their powerful political connections with commerce and trade or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted succession or secessionists; He {Achebe} who have tried to re-write the history of our country with delusion and ethnical sentiments; This thought of arousing the long pains of yesteryears have brought all historians and active participants to arcs of time , defending the course of our nationhood and on which side of history we belong
So the Nigeria I loved still exists, if not in Aso rock or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. "The Nigeria I love still exists .”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt
Writing By 'Jide Adesina
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