In the many years in which he had toiled to bring civilization to different parts of Africa he had learned a number of things. One of them was that a District Commissioner must never attend to such undignified details as cutting a hanged man from the tree. Such attention would give the natives a poor opinion of him. In the book which he planned to write he would stress that point. [...] One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph, at any rate.


Chapter 25 (p. 191) - Things Fall Apart (1958)

Chinua Achebe Quotes

In the many years in which he had toiled to bring civilization to different parts of Africa he had learned a number of things. One of them was that a ...

In the many years in which he had toiled to bring civilization to different parts of Africa he had learned a number of things. One of them was that a ...

In the many years in which he had toiled to bring civilization to different parts of Africa he had learned a number of things. One of them was that a ...

In the many years in which he had toiled to bring civilization to different parts of Africa he had learned a number of things. One of them was that a ...