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An African Education And Cultural Center
African culture is one generation away from extinction if our elders fail to tell their stories and the stories their parents told them.
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“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (Nigeria)
"If you know all the languages of the world but not your mother tongue, that is enslavement. Knowing your mother tongue and all other languages too is empowerment"
“If poverty was to be sold three cents today, i can't buy it.”
― Ngugi wa Thiong'o , I Will Marry When I Want (Kenya)
“And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end. ”
― Mariama Bâ, So Long a Letter (Senegal)
“There are moments in one's life when everything one considers to be a win is for all practical purposes a loss.”
― Nuruddin Farah, North of Dawn (Somalia)
“We co-existed in peaceful detachment”
― Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Zimbabwe)
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