Afrikans, let us find ourselves happening to events, instead of always responding to events happening to us. — Es’kia Mphahlele

You’ll come back and be able to look after yourself and the two you’re leaving behind.

About eight out of every ten educated Africans, most of whom are also professed Christians, still believe firmly in the spirits of their ancestors.

Common suffering unites. But when suffering becomes intolerably acute, when it reduces people to abject, dehumanising poverty and insecurity, suffering disunites.