"This book, is a summary of some of the issues in which I have been passionately involved for the last twenty years of…"

"the ceaseless struggles of African people to liberate their economy, politics and culture from that Euro-American-bas…"

"the night of the sword and the bullet was followed by the morning of the chalk and the blackboard”"

"“[T]heatre is not a building. People make theatre. Their life is the very stuff of drama”"

"In my case the regime wanted to keep me away from the university and the village and if possible to break me"

"[A] very cruel prison superintendent warned me against any attempts at writing poems—he obviously confused novels wit…"

"“[I]f there is a need for a ‘study of the historic continuity of a single culture,’ why can’t this be African? Why ca…"

"Universities today, particularly in Africa, have become the modern patrons for the artist. Most African-writers are p…"

"If in these essays I criticise the Afro-European (or Euroafrican) choice of our linguistic praxis, it is not to take …"

"I shall look at the African realities as they are affected by the great struggle between the two mutually opposed for…"