A Quote by Ibrahim Babangida
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.
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I wanted to be a part of history and not just a recorder and teacher of history. So that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching.
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