The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
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I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood.
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It takes a jaundiced view of the much-vaunted glorious past of Africa. And I suppose since then I've been doing nothing but the danse macabre in this political jungle of ours.
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But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
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an opportunity for Nigerian civic society, an opportunity for the Nigerian military, and an opportunity for the international community.
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