Quotable: Chinua Achebe
From Achebe’s second novel, A Man of the People:
Max began by accusing the outgoing government of all kinds of swindling and corruption. As he gave instance after instance of how some of our leaders who were ash-mouthed paupers five years ago had become near-millionaires under our very eyes, many in the audience laughed. But it was the laughter of resignation to misfortune.”
The book was published in 1966.
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