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Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

Source: Award Lecture, What Has Literature Got to Do With It?, In Sokoto, 23 Aug 1986.
-- Chinua Achebe, (Nov 16 1930-2013), Nigerian novelist; He described how imposed Western values led to social and psychological disorientation of traditional African society; Things Fall Apart, 1959.

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