“The Igbo nation in precolonial times was not quite like any nation most people are familiar with. It did not have the apparatus of centralized government but a conglomeration of hundreds of independent towns and villages each of which shared the running of its affairs among its menfolk according to…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“Ogbuef Ezedudu, who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking the Peace of Ani had become very mild in their clan. ‘It has not always been so,’ he said. ‘My father told me that he had been told that in the past a man who…”— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com
“A couple of years ago, I went to Brazil on a journalistic assignment, which I thought was fantastic. I went on a boat up to the Amazon to villages off little tributaries. We were taking justice to the communities, so we'd sleep in hammocks on the boat, get off, do some justice, and party through the…”— Clive Anderson, independent.co.uk