… Freedom and its boat had arrived. And out of the freedom boat, almost imperceptible, just behind - some would say hand in hand with freedom itself, stepped memory, the vengeful, unforgiving brigand of all time. ´It is the storyteller,´Achebe has said, ´who makes us what we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have - otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.´ Memory heals, it regenerates. It is an affirming god, a transcendent guide in the ritual of continuity. But when spurned, when repressed, memory mutates into a trickster imp and seduces the wayfarer to the precipice and beyond.
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- Biyi Bandele
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