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Poor people are the most dangerous when things fall apart

Awakening their consciousness the most important task of real revolutionaries

In his classic, The Trouble With Nigeria, the legendary African author, Chinua Achebe, reflects on how things fell apart in his country.

By the time Chinua wrote his book, things had got so bad that “If you want electricity, you buy your own generator; if you want water, you sink your own borehole; if you want to travel, you set up your own airline”...

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