For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading … - Chinua Achebe

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In a good script, it's really like a treasure map. You just focus on that, all the answers are pretty much in it.

Chinua Achebe

For people who are coming out of an oral tradition, it is very exciting to get into reading and writing and it is quite interesting how frequently people want to write their own story. Sometimes it is straight history - this is how we came about, how our town was created, a lot of that kind of effort, as soon as literacy came. The first thing you wanted to do was to put something down about who you are or how you are related to you neighbors. Then the next stage would be the stories, the cultural part of the story: this is the kind of world our ancestors made or aspired to.

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