Quotes by Obehi Peter Ewanfoh

“Twenty good friends cannot live together in twenty good years. We were more than twenty who left the school and the simple statement was beginning to echo hard in my ear, as if grandma actually had...”

“The feast was seen everywhere and in everything. Some women in semi-dresses were busy doing many things at once. Domestic animals were crying their last, with knives on their throats. They too were...”

“Kukurukuuu, our big rooster crowed as usual and it nearly put me off my sleep. My eyes were neither open nor close. In trying to go back to sleep I rolled to both sides on my small wooden bed, cove...”

“Tell me my little children, what crime has this lizard committed that it must die this evening? There was silence. In raising my head like a joke, I tried to laugh. That was the same time I realize...”

“Dry your tears, woman, the boy will be found. Nobody can do him anything Gradually, the tears began to dry from Etusis eyes, thanks to Okokpujies words, a mighty force that swung the entire village...”

“It is you who need to go, Amende. Go home; your friends are waiting for you. Pg.63”

“I wish I were like you pa. I wish I had not been afraid, all my life! Pg.55”

“Grandma; it was to grandma I truly wanted to have returned, but she was no more. I could only remember the day she died. The tears mother shed on me, as if I was going to face a more difficult worl...”

“This land has brought forth numerous children, favouring both the bad and the good ones. It is not the land that is responsible for the peoples hardships, it is the people themselves. Pg.8”

“Twenty good friends cannot live together in twenty good years”. We were more than twenty who left the school and the simple statement was beginning to echo hard in my ear, as if grandma actually ha...”

“Kukurukuuu,’ our big rooster crowed as usual and it nearly put me off my sleep. My eyes were neither open nor close. In trying to go back to sleep I rolled to both sides on my small wooden bed, cov...”

“Dry your tears, woman, the boy will be found. Nobody can do him anything…” Gradually, the tears began to dry from Etusi’s eyes, thanks to Okokpujie’s words, a mighty force that swung the entire vil...”