#nigeria

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Nigeria has had a complicated colonial history. My work has examined that part of our story extensively.


Chinua Achebe


#complicated #examined #extensively #had #history

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.


Chinua Achebe


#down #high #hostility #level #lived

Our choice of a reform framework dictated that we looked at the fundamental assumptions that had driven Nigeria's economy, society and policy hitherto and to seek ways of either abandoning or transcending those assumptions and their supporting institutions.


Ibrahim Babangida


#assumptions #choice #dictated #driven #economy

The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.


Ibrahim Babangida


#challenge #cultivation #decisively #democracy #direction

Women in Africa, generally a lot needs to be done for women. Women are not being educated, not only in Angola but my trip to Nigeria, one point I would make over and over again was that women need to be educated too.


Mia Farrow


#again #angola #being #done #educated

You see, I was told stories, we were all told stories as kids in Nigeria. We had to tell stories that would keep one another interested, and you weren't allowed to tell stories that everybody else knew. You had to dream up new ones.


Ben Okri


#another #dream #else #everybody #everybody else

On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.


J. Philippe Rushton


#average #chinese #different #each #israelis

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.


Chinua Achebe


#nigeria #south-korea #worldview #experience

Business is as old as life. There is no living being that does not have a business.


Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha


#america #business #dangote #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #life

The biggest opportunity in 2013 is in Africa. It has seven out of the ten fastest-growing economies in the world. In Nigeria alone there are 100 million people with mobile phones. In total, 300 million Africans - five times the population of Britain - are in the middle class.


David Miliband


#alone #biggest #britain #class #economies