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“"Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."”

Source: Interview with Jerome Brooks, 'The Art of Fiction No. 139', The Paris Review, no. 133, Winter 1994

Context Asked how he became a novelist, he explained that colonial writing had told Africa's story from the outside, and cited this proverb as the reason he had to write.

Chinua AchebeNigeria · 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013

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