Frasi di Nnamdi Azikiwe

Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe è stato uno scrittore e politico nigeriano.

✵ 16. Novembre 1904 – 11. Maggio 1996

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Nnamdi Azikiwe: Frasi in inglese

“My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done.”

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Nnamdi Azikiwe

On Nigerian Independence (1 October 1960), quoted in "Between then and now" at The Nation Online (10 March 2009) http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/20591/1/Between-then-and-now/Page1.html
Contesto: My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

“There is plenty of room at the top because very few people care to travel beyond the average route. And so most of us seem satisfied to remain within the confines of mediocrity.”

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My Odyssey (1971), No. 5

“Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar.”

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Attributed without citation in Answers Africa 40 famous quotes about Africa, http://answersafrica.com/quotes-about-africa.html answersafrica.com

“No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.”

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Quoted in A Life of Azikiwe by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey (Penguin, 1965), p. 121

“The realization of New Africa can only be possible by the African cultivating spiritual balance, which leads to the practicalization of social regeneration, to realizing economic determination, becoming mentally emancipated, and ushering in a political resurgence.”

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Quoted in A Life of Azikiwe by K. A. B. Jones-Quartey (Penguin, 1965), p. 116

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